full-disclosure - [inbox] Breaking LoJack for Laptops

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Date: Tue Dec 27 21:33:11 2005
From: measl at mfn.org (J.A. Terranson)
Subject: [inbox] Breaking LoJack for Laptops

On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, 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).

That's all there on todays hardware you know.  I have several hundred
boot-from-the-wire boxes, less than a year old - from Dell and others.

-- 
Yours,

J.A. Terranson
sysadmin@....org
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