Re: [LinuxBIOS] Hard drive passwords

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:12:28PM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: Note that some laptop hard drives have password protection. LB does not currently offer any way to enter the password for such drives, but it will be simple enough to add that once there is support for the laptop itself. I

[LinuxBIOS] Hard drive passwords

2007-08-14 Thread Quux
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

Re: [LinuxBIOS] Hard drive passwords

2007-08-14 Thread Peter Stuge
On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 04:07:28PM +0200, Quux wrote: 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. Hah. :p Well, not for good? It wouldn't be too difficult to