Re: [free-software-melb] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WIKILEAKS, Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed

2017-03-09 Thread Russell Coker
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Re: [free-software-melb] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: WIKILEAKS, Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed

2017-03-09 Thread Jookia
On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 06:41:00PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > I agree that reducing the attack surface is good, but I doubt that dealing > with BIOS bugs actually achieves that goal. To get to the BIOS an attacker > has to either compromise the kernel/acpid or gain physical access to the >