Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:41:56 +0000 (UTC) From: dfeustel@mindspring.com To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: cpghost@cordula.ws, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, jeffrey@goldmark.org, dfeustel@mindspring.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD and User Security Message-ID: <20080612104157.51D828FC16@mx1.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4850d834.VvRLmDrvgD3J8RVH%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:03:00AM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > How do you know that the bios has not been reflashed by a virus, > > trojan, or rootkit? > > For that matter, how do you know that the *original* bios was free > of "interesting non-essentials"? It's been a few years since bios > were delivered in socketed ROMs/EPROMs (readable by a standalone > device, independently of their own operation) or since sources were > typically published :) Check out http://www.gensw.com and the book _BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered_.
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