On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Dave Eckhardt wrote:

> If you can't trust the BIOS, you can't trust *anything* about the
> machine.  There are business-card-sized CD-R's, so if you do trust the
> BIOS you can have a read-only bootable system in your wallet at all
> times.  If you use the disk only for a "cfs -r", you don't need to trust
> its contents.

it's almost always assumed by people on this list that all computers have
an orifice of some sort or another into which bootable media can be poked.  
I don't know why.

ron

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