Hello Aron, Friday, October 10, 2003, 9:13:18 AM, you wrote:
AS> You mean that the board has an encrypted flash protecting the encrypted AS> flash. :-0 Sort of like that, yes. No key, no flash, no bios. AS> There is a Linux BIOS out there http://www.linuxbios.org/ Remember, the board has nothing, not even the HW initialization needed to activate the linux bios. How will you get the HW initialization on that board? If they want to really protect the board, M$ would disable, in HW, certain conduits on the board, and these would be activated only by the M$ bios. So - even if you use a plug-in board to provide the bios, the main board will still not work. They can make this REALLY difficult, if they want to. It's the 'final solution' Herr Bill might use to stamp out linux, with a 'cover story' of making users more secure. Fits the M$ mentality just fine. -- rikona mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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