On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 04:21:02PM -0500, Michael Holstein wrote: > But to send out a "phone home" packet, you'd have to put a lot of logic > in the bios (enough to do tcp/ip, dhcp, dns, plus hardware drivers for > ethernet, etc).
Don't a lot of systems include just this? Any system which supports PXE boot can pretty much do all of the above from the BIOS. Steve -- Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | +1 714 544-6561 www.unixwiz.net | Tustin, Calif. USA | Microsoft MVP | [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
