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Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI

Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI

Posted Feb 8, 2007 0:15 UTC (Thu) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Ronald Minnich of LinuxBIOS on EFI by lutchann
Parent article: Second batch of FOSDEM interviews

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...


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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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