[LinuxBIOS] Hard drive passwords

[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 that some laptop hard drives have password protection. LB does