[HN Gopher] Security Flaw Afflicts Intel x86 Boot ROMs
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       Security Flaw Afflicts Intel x86 Boot ROMs
        
       Author : giuliomagnifico
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-01-05 19:02 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | lrossi wrote:
       | Interesting. But it requires tampering with the hardware while
       | the computer is sleeping. Given that, it's not that exciting.
        
         | userbinator wrote:
         | ...and might be a way around that user-hostile "secure" boot
         | crap?
        
       | nicetryguy wrote:
       | If someone has physical access to your machine, injecting a
       | corrupted boot rom in sleep mode is just about the least of your
       | worries...
        
         | lights0123 wrote:
         | This is a lot easier than freezing the RAM to quickly read it
         | though. Otherwise, if you have full disk encryption enabled,
         | you can't really do much.
        
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