there is also the issue, that unless BIOS disables the feature, a virus can lock up a modern hard drive for good at run time. this was reported on c't security some time ago. There were no known legacy BIOSes aware of this vulnerability at the time (~2005). --Q
Peter Stuge schrieb: >>> Note that some laptop hard drives have password protection. LB does -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios