FFS (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on 2015-08-24 12:33 (#J9RT) Can we go back to the days when the only way to modify the BIOS was pre-boot?!? Who ever thought that allowing an OS to modify the BIOS was ever a good idea? Re: FFS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 13:12 (#J9VS) Credit goes too, to groups like Intel, who have steadily increased the 'power' and 'utility' of the BIOS to the point where it is now a fun attack vector. All this 'management code' and such - I can't be specific because I scarecely understand it, myself - is frightening.BIOS should check the hardware, hand things off to the boot loader, and then "peace out." Make any code complicated enough and begins to become a target; I think that's exactly what we've got here. Re: FFS (Score: 1) by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 19:15 (#JAZD) Well, ok, how do you then update the "bios"? Re: FFS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2015-08-25 04:27 (#JC3B) You have a point. But my ignorant response would be, "why would you ever need to update the BIOS on a machine when its role is reduced to something so simple?"
Re: FFS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 13:12 (#J9VS) Credit goes too, to groups like Intel, who have steadily increased the 'power' and 'utility' of the BIOS to the point where it is now a fun attack vector. All this 'management code' and such - I can't be specific because I scarecely understand it, myself - is frightening.BIOS should check the hardware, hand things off to the boot loader, and then "peace out." Make any code complicated enough and begins to become a target; I think that's exactly what we've got here. Re: FFS (Score: 1) by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 19:15 (#JAZD) Well, ok, how do you then update the "bios"? Re: FFS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2015-08-25 04:27 (#JC3B) You have a point. But my ignorant response would be, "why would you ever need to update the BIOS on a machine when its role is reduced to something so simple?"
Re: FFS (Score: 1) by billshooterofbul@pipedot.org on 2015-08-24 19:15 (#JAZD) Well, ok, how do you then update the "bios"? Re: FFS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2015-08-25 04:27 (#JC3B) You have a point. But my ignorant response would be, "why would you ever need to update the BIOS on a machine when its role is reduced to something so simple?"
Re: FFS (Score: 1) by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2015-08-25 04:27 (#JC3B) You have a point. But my ignorant response would be, "why would you ever need to update the BIOS on a machine when its role is reduced to something so simple?"