[109108] in Cypherpunks
Re: COMPUTER MAKERS JOIN FORCES ON PRIVACY PROBLEM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Wed Mar 10 18:27:18 1999
Date: 10 Mar 1999 23:14:45 -0000
From: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Anonymous <nobody@remailer.ch>
> ...major vendors say they will disable the ID in the basic input/output
> system (BIOS) software that controls basic PC functions. "We know that the
> BIOS mechanism is completely secure," says Gateway's VP of product
> management & planning.
Oh yes, COMPLETELY secure. I was under the impression that it'd be
trivial for a Trojan to flip the appropriate bit in CMOS, then cause the
PC to reboot, thus enabling the SN crap.
