Re: [Trisquel-users] extract rar file freely?

[alonivtsan]

The problem is we do not know anything about the proprietary firmware. It  
could have been as well programmed to perform malicious tasks. Or, which is  
give or less the same, it could have been written terribly, full of (sec)  
bugs, and therefore exploitable. Trouble is also most firmware gets very  
rarely, if ever, updated.
So you are stuck with buggy, insecure firmware that you (or anyone in your  
place) can not fix.

Stock BIOS updates are usually only provided in the first few months of a  
laptop's release in order to resolve issues such as difficulties installing  
operating systems that are not shipped with the laptop. Once the main issues  
are addressed by the laptop manufacturer no BIOS updates are to be expected  
and users rarely if ever perform BIOS updates. As long as the BIOS update is  
based on the last BIOS revision for your laptop it should be as secure as the  
stock BIOS.