full-disclosure - [inbox] Breaking LoJack for Laptops

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Message-ID: <20051227212539.GA21454@linux.unixwiz.net>
Date: Tue Dec 27 21:25:55 2005
From: steve at unixwiz.net (Steve Friedl)
Subject: [inbox] Breaking LoJack for Laptops

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

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