Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!ctisbv!pim
From: pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3b2 Questions - Answers Appreciated
Message-ID: <726@ctisbv.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 89 19:05:24 GMT
References: <8300010@gistdev> <178@flnexus.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: pim@ctisbv.UUCP (Pim Zandbergen)
Organization: CTI Software BV, The Hague, The Netherlands
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In article <178@flnexus.ATT.COM> heff@flnexus.ATT.COM (Paul_Heffner) writes:
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|Because It's potentially a serious security hole. If your processor
|isn't physically secure.
|[...]
|THAT is why they allow you to change the firmware password and smart
|SAs do just that...
|
But when your processor is not physically secure, neither is the
firmware password. Anyone who can use the Essential Utilities #1
can also bring their own floppy key with their own firmware password,
or could just disconnect the battery for a while..
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