On 7/21/05, Ronald G. Minnich <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Yeah, that's sooo 1980s :)

> 
> ron
>

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