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so... you know how to flash and fry a password protected bios chip?
interesting. I always thought that it was kinda hard without some kind of access to root privileges isn't it?

I have flashed a few bios chips in windows... but its hard to do remotely on a unix machine without root privileges... perhaps you could write a self executing program that would run at reboot, but... I never have to reboot the linux systems... except when I install a new kernel.

hatch is an idiot.
and if it was easy to do...
I have known some folks who would be doing it all the time... just for "fun".
imho... not so easy UNLESS all new BIOS are going to offer back door access via a government password, to bomb upon a issuance of a remote key signal.

Might as well be remote controlled and offered to all leos... who could use it to bomb all they suspect of any criminal activity... every body knows that computers MUST be registered... just like handguns, with the local technology cops.

so... you know how to flash and fry a password protected bios chip?

Didn't say I knew how. But I have an inkling on how it could be done.

If person in question downloaded a .exe file and ran it...and said .exe file contained a flash BIOS utility...or perhaps a utility that would replace the autoexec.bat file that would do the nasty upon reboot it could work. Just name it something that the subject would be likely to open...mp3 something or other.

As far as Hatch goes...at one time I thought he had a decent head on his shoulders and had Presidential mettle. But the more I've actually listened to him the more I realize that he's just like all the rest. Got nothing but rice pudding between the ears.