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Re: Dell BIOS DoS
From: "Steve Shockley" <steve.shockley () shockley net>
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 12:53:08 -0500
jon schatz wrote:
seriously, bios passwords are worthless.
Hard disk passwords are somewhat less worthless. See: http://ssddom01.hgst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/85256AB8006A31E587256A780 0644ED8/$file/dara_sp.pdf (http://tinyurl.com/yg06) page 84. If the security level is set to Maximum and the User password is unknown, you can either erase the drive (if you know the Master password) or throw it away. I'm sure it's feasable to recover the data by physical disassembly or modifying the drive's circuits or firmware, but at least it's not trivial like BIOS passwords.
Current thread:
- Dell BIOS DoS James Evans (Dec 08)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS jon schatz (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Steve Shockley (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS der Mouse (Dec 10)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Dell BIOS DoS David Brodbeck (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Craig Paterson (Dec 09)
- RE: Dell BIOS DoS Lyal Collins (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Eric Anderson (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Alexandros Papadopoulos (Dec 09)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Jim Paris (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Craig Paterson (Dec 09)
- Dell BIOS DoS Ross Draper (Dec 09)
- Mobile Device Security, Was: Re: Dell BIOS DoS Karsten W. Rohrbach (Dec 10)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS Seth Arnold (Dec 10)
(Thread continues...)
- Re: Dell BIOS DoS jon schatz (Dec 09)