FreeBSD and User Security

[dfeustel at mindspring.com]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 01:03:00AM -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
> > How do you know that the bios has not been reflashed by a virus,
> > trojan, or rootkit?
> 
> For that matter, how do you know that the *original* bios was free
> of "interesting non-essentials"?  It's been a few years since bios
> were delivered in socketed ROMs/EPROMs (readable by a standalone
> device, independently of their own operation) or since sources were
> typically published :)

Check out http://www.gensw.com and the book
_BIOS Disassembly Ninjutsu Uncovered_.