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The BIOS password is a pretty meaningful protection - if it can be easily subverted it's possible to disable security features (such as IOMMU configuration for
by mjg59 3y ago
The BIOS password is a pretty meaningful protection - if it can be easily subverted it's possible to disable security features (such as IOMMU configuration for Thunderbolt devices in the boot environment) that allow an attacker to compromise the boot process. But I agree that there's no universe in which people should be selling devices that require unknown passwords as if they're generically usable.
- gizmo686 3y agoWe are talking about having physical access to the machine for long enough to partially dissasemble it and physically manipulate the mother board. There are a lot of attacks that enables, and almost no one even claims to defend against them. Put another way, a modern computer can be thought if as a network of relativity simple devices, of which the eeprom is one. Normally we assume that an attacker does not have access to this network. If the attacker does have access to this network, the game is lost. Everything about the network is unencrypted.
- 0ct4via 3y agoThis.