TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Pod Slurping Dangerous to Your Company


Re: Pod Slurping Dangerous to Your Company


jtaylor (jtaylor@deletethis.hfx.andara.com)
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:37:18 -0300

Tony P. <kd1s@nospamplease.cox.reallynospam.net> wrote in message
news:telecom24.279.9@telecom-digest.org...

> BIOS passwords are only as good as that little CR-2032 lithium
> battery. Remove or short the battery and kiss passwords goodbye.

I believe this to be incorrect.

On Ebay there is a brisk trade in BIOS password chips, as well as kits for
soldering them onto the motherboard.

More trouble than shorting a jumper, to be sure, but it requires more
equipment, and that equipment is unlikely to have any other reasonable
purpose; being discovered with such tools would be a dead giveaway.

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