On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 10:27, rikona wrote: > 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. True but board designs are easy to come by given you scerenaro I would expect a lively black market in boards that let younput in your on bios On my first box (Altair 8080) you had to load a 512 byte program (in hex by hand), which gave Dumbo enough smarts to read the paper tape Then you could load a program.
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