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Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFIRonald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFIPosted Feb 7, 2007 22:07 UTC (Wed) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872)In reply to: Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI by zlynx Parent article: Second batch of FOSDEM interviews
This is why the NSA has groups of people who disassemble and examine the firmware of every component of secure government PCs. Really? Wouldn't it be easier for them to tell Dell or whoever, "We'll pay you 20x list price for your PCs if you let us compile the BIOS ourselves?" Of course, it wouldn't improve the security of the system one bit to audit the BIOS or other firmware, which is why they could care less what's in there. Military data security is all about paranoia, yes, but let's be serious here...
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Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI Posted Feb 8, 2007 0:15 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link] You believe that the government which had cameras installed in Xerox machines shipped to the USSR trusts the firmware provided in computers built in China?
Let's be serious here...
Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI Posted Feb 8, 2007 1:22 UTC (Thu) by lutchann (subscriber, #8872) [Link] If the firmware warrants so much scrutiny then of course the hardware (which is even more likely to be from China) can't be trusted either. Do you think they decap and trace every chip in every computer used in a classified environment?
Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI Posted Feb 9, 2007 16:36 UTC (Fri) by moxfyre (guest, #13847) [Link] Maybe not, but they have TEMPEST to prevent unwanted electromagnetic emmissions, and classified computer networks are physically isolated from non-classified networks. So that rules out a lot of the shenanigans that could happen...
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