Bugtraq: Re: Dell BIOS DoS

[Jim Paris <jim () jtan com>]

> > seriously, bios passwords are worthless.
> There is no such thing as security from someone who has physical access to
> the hardware.
There are different types of physical access.  For example, many
computers at my university are publically accessible but strapped to
the table in such a way that the case cannot be removed without a key
or a lot of force.  It is trivial to reboot them and attempt to enter
BIOS, but an entirely different matter to open it up and move a jumper
or swap the hard drive.

-jim