Re: Please help - security

From: Walter Roberson (roberson_at_ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca)
Date: 05/25/03 

Date: 25 May 2003 21:27:50 GMT

In article <zpQza.67883$Vi5.1887222@news1.calgary.shaw.ca>,
colbyco <colbyco@hotmail.com> wrote:
:What is the bios prom you mention below. I know that the P3 intel chips had
:some privacy issues and you could disable it though bios...is that what you
:are referring to?

No, I was referring to the possibility that someone might put a
"call home" function in the BIOS prom.

It seems likely to me that a professional thief would not want to bother
with BIOS passwords, possible misconfigurations at the BIOS level,
possible call-home programs, and so on: they'd just rip out the
BIOS and replace it with something they knew worked. 

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