Re: The police advised me to destroy my computer after it was attacked.

In article <eOCdnUfYRr2wTDDWnZ2dnUVZ7ridnZ2d@xxxxxx>,
..BoaterDave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
"Of course, injecting code into the BIOS is no easy feat. It requires
physical access to the machine or an exploit that hands an attacker
unfettered root access."


Which means that 99.99999999999% of all the people in the world don't
have to worry about it.

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voice inside you that most civilians don't even hear -- Listen to that.
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