On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. > Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by > any means (which is more likely in case of mobile devices), could gain root > access and do whatever one wants to do with the system as well as the data. > One solution suggested to me was to set a BIOS password. That's good. > > I would like to know that is there any way once you forget your BIOS > password.
Yes. There will be a jumper on the motherboard that you can connect to cause the NVRAM where the BIOS password is stored to forget itself completely. In some machines, a battery is removed simultaneously or instead of using the jumper. -dsr-
