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Chinese mischief via the BIOS?



 
 
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Old July 28th 20, 06:36 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
John Doe[_8_]
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Default Chinese mischief via the BIOS?

Sort of off-topic.

I'm wondering mainly about communications. Can discrete code in the BIOS
initiate communications?

Thanks.
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Old July 28th 20, 07:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Default Chinese mischief via the BIOS?

John Doe wrote:
Sort of off-topic.

I'm wondering mainly about communications. Can discrete code in the BIOS
initiate communications?

Thanks.


Without wasting any time, let's see how easy it is.

Computrace/Lojack

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_Home_%26_Office

Naw, that would never happen.

Modern computers have an attack surface the size
of Texas now (gee, thanks Intel!).

Paul
 




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