[LAU] UEFI (was How to turn off hyperthreading?)

[Paul Davis]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey at boosthardware.com
> wrote:

>
>
> Like the backdoor that doesn't exist on every cellphone? Or the use of
> social networks to fulfil the CIA's promise project agenda. Or that
> arcfour has not been compromised.
>

a backdoor is totally possible with the current BIOS architecture!

UEFI is about something different. If such backdoors exist now, they will
exist after UEFI (with the proviso that they may be more difficult to
hijack in a UEFI system)
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