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> As military experts investigated the Pentagon breach, they determined that the malicious instructions guiding the Pentagon’s servers were hidden in the machin
by em3rgent0rdr 6y ago
> As military experts investigated the Pentagon breach, they determined that the malicious instructions guiding the Pentagon’s servers were hidden in the machines’ basic input-output system, or BIOS, part of any computer that tells it what to do at startup.
If concerned about this, get a computer that can run the free-opensource Libreboot firmware: https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/ https://libreboot.org/docs/hardware/
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoI wonder if there's any way to swing these kinds of problems into getting government funding for coreboot/libreboot.
- Mindless2112 6y agocoreboot was created at a government lab. https://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Who_is_working_on_coreboot.3F https://www.coreboot.org/FAQ#Who_is_working_on_coreboot.3F