[OpenBIOS] Secure BIOS for voting?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Jul 23 18:37:37 CEST 2013


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:08:54PM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> And it has to have things like USB support because of people who
> insist on trying to boot from USB-connected floppies without
> considering the implications :-)

And having the USB keyboard work (which means USB HID support, USB hub
support, USB controller support, PCI support, etc).

> Read every source of security advisories you can find, learn to
> disassemble and analyse other peoples' low-level code, and get a job
> with somebody who write BIOSes.
> 
> Seconded. Geohot's Sony Playstation hack was a textbook case.

Once the control of the hardware has been taken over, there is no way
to take it back.

-- 
Len Sorensen



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