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Re: [inbox] [Full-disclosure] Breaking LoJack for Laptops
- To: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [inbox] [Full-disclosure] Breaking LoJack for Laptops
- From: Steve Friedl <steve@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:25:39 -0800
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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