Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Posted Apr 25, 2022 15:41 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS by khim
Parent article: Fedora considers deprecating legacy BIOS
Note, though, that on all modern x86 hardware platforms, "traditional" BIOS is implemented as a module running atop UEFI; so you get all the vulnerabilities of UEFI, plus extra holes due to the CSM that implements the BIOS interface.
Which, in turn, makes the claims about BIOS being more secure questionable - you're talking about an additional layer atop UEFI, which can have its own vulnerabilities, plus you have the full stack of UEFI beneath it to compromise.
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