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Re: Dell BIOS DoS
From: Jim Paris <jim () jtan com>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 17:50:31 -0500
seriously, bios passwords are worthless.There is no such thing as security from someone who has physical access to the hardware.
There are different types of physical access. For example, many computers at my university are publically accessible but strapped to the table in such a way that the case cannot be removed without a key or a lot of force. It is trivial to reboot them and attempt to enter BIOS, but an entirely different matter to open it up and move a jumper or swap the hard drive. -jim
Current thread:
- Dell BIOS DoS James Evans (Dec 08)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS jon schatz (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Steve Shockley (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS der Mouse (Dec 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Dell BIOS DoS David Brodbeck (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Craig Paterson (Dec 09)
- RE: Dell BIOS DoS Lyal Collins (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Eric Anderson (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Alexandros Papadopoulos (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Jim Paris (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Craig Paterson (Dec 09)
- Dell BIOS DoS Ross Draper (Dec 09)
- Mobile Device Security, Was: Re: Dell BIOS DoS Karsten W. Rohrbach (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Seth Arnold (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Thor (Dec 11)
- PGP secret keys (was Re: Dell BIOS DoS) Matthew Wakeling (Dec 12)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS jon schatz (Dec 09)