Re: [coreboot] Coreboot and the NSA's expressed preference for subverting BIOSes

2013-12-31 Thread David Hendricks
On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:06 PM, David Collier-Brown davecb...@gmail.comwrote: May I request you loudly announce how one checksums one's coreboot, and in principle other BIOSes, so that one can see if anyone has changed firmware critical to one's security. Depends... In general this is not

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot and the NSA's expressed preference for subverting BIOSes

2013-12-31 Thread Sam Kuper
On 31/12/2013, David Hendricks david.hendri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:06 PM, David Collier-Brown davecb...@gmail.comwrote: May I request you loudly announce how one checksums one's coreboot, and in principle other BIOSes, so that one can see if anyone has changed firmware

Re: [coreboot] Coreboot and the NSA's expressed preference for subverting BIOSes

2013-12-31 Thread mrnuke
On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 11:54:21 PM Sam Kuper wrote: Which other Coreboot-supported systems/motherboards have hardware write-protection (or can be easily modified to at least write-protect the BIOS)? Most SPI flash chips have a write-protect pin. It depends on the model how much that

[coreboot] Coreboot and the NSA's expressed preference for subverting BIOSes

2013-12-30 Thread David Collier-Brown
As proposed by Der Spiegel at http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/catalog-reveals-nsa-has-back-doors-for-numerous-devices-a-940994.html the NSA seems to be interested in subverting BIOSes, lower-level disk roms and the like. May I request you loudly announce how one checksums one's