{"id":2064,"date":"2011-09-25T22:43:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T19:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2011-09-25T22:43:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T19:43:54","slug":"this-really-needs-to-be-fixed-at-the-bios-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/2011\/09\/25\/this-really-needs-to-be-fixed-at-the-bios-level\/","title":{"rendered":"This really needs to be fixed at the BIOS level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to my understanding and based on what Jonas wrote above and also [1], doing the freeze post-BIOS would be useless securitywise; it&#8217;s not even a workaround, as any malicious software then just inserts itself into the MBR. This really needs to be fixed at the BIOS level to be effective at all.<\/p>\n<p>[1] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coreboot.org\/pipermail\/coreboot\/2005-May\/011688.html\">http:\/\/www.coreboot.org\/pipermail\/coreboot\/2005-May\/011688.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freezing post-BIOS is useless securitywise; it&#8217;s not even a workaround, as any malicious software then just inserts itself into the MBR. This needs to be fixed at the BIOS level to be effective at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8860],"tags":[27,2641],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vianhallintajarjestelmat","tag-linux","tag-turvallisuus","sijainti-launchpad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/kommentit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}