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 >
