[flashrom] new board enable type: attacking intel bios

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 26.10.2009 16:51, ron minnich wrote:
> http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/WOJTCZUK/BHUSA09-Wojtczuk-AtkIntelBios-SLIDES.pdf
>
> interesting. Install a shell by changing the OEM logo. Would this be
> an "external flasher" in flashrom :-)
>   

No, because the external flasher interface requires flashrom to be able
to send commands somewhere else.

What you want is a port of flashrom to libpayload which can then be
launched with that OEM logo trick. Doable, maybe a day or two of
development.


> it seems that more than ever the rule in the closed bios world is
> security through obscurity. we know how well that one works.
>   

Hehe, yes.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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