[coreboot] Coreboot and the NSA's expressed preference for subverting BIOSes

Sam Kuper sam.kuper at uclmail.net
Wed Jan 1 00:54:21 CET 2014


On 31/12/2013, David Hendricks <david.hendricks at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:06 PM, David Collier-Brown
> <davecb.42 at gmail.com>wrote:
>> May I request you loudly announce how one checksums one's coreboot,
>> and in principle other BIOSes, so that one can see if anyone has changed
>> firmware critical to one's security.
>
> For Chromebooks, full verification is built into coreboot and also utilizes
> hardware write-protection

Which other Coreboot-supported systems/motherboards have hardware
write-protection (or can be easily modified to at least write-protect
the BIOS)?

Regards,

Sam



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