Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "MSI Data Leak Is More Serious Than We Thought" video.

  1. I'll say more or less the same thing I said under Mental Outlaw's video with an addendum: I think all firmware and device drivers should be open source, and while I don't know for certain, I'd guess the reason for the oddball naming scheme of Intel processors is to make it possible for them to track leaks on projects. Let's say groups A, B and C each get a codename, Agamemnon Lake, Boudicca Lake and Constantine Lake. You see one of those in an article and you immediately know it was someone in that group. The real name winds up being Sapphire Lake and you blame the change on some middle manager who works alone in another division and everyone accepts it.
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  2.  @jasonfahnestock9494  Being able to change the BIOS however you see fit is a good thing. Just wait until someone puts out an open source UEFI BIOS that allows you to fully control your own hardware.
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  3.  @SianaGearz  That's a failure of vision. You wouldn't want a random program modifying the BIOS in any way at all whatsoever. Whether that be to overwrite the whole firmware or to just change boot order. A physical switch to allow flashing the firmware or to change settings would be ideal because it would require local access to modify, and even better yet if it still required a password.
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  4. Seconded, and I'm surprised no one else agreed.
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  5.  @chlorobyte_projects  UEFI exists with passwords not known by the user as well.
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  6.  @chlorobyte_projects  You should have access, but there are instances where you don't have access. Go ahead and test that theory that Windows allows you to boot into the UEFI BIOS without knowing the password for it. It'll require you to have a password on it to test.
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  7.  @chlorobyte_projects  Okay, and without the password for the UEFI BIOS, how did you install an alternative OS?
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  8.  @SianaGearz  So basically you agree with @zyxwvutsrqponmlkh and I then and you understood beforehand how it could work, and even from multiple possible methods, yet you expressed disagreement. Why?
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  9.  @chlorobyte_projects  You didn't touch the "system" drive? Are you saying you didn't install it and merely ran it from an external drive?
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  10.  @chlorobyte_projects  And do you realize what that means?
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  11. @Dimguru That's a possibility, but if you build your own computer and install your own open firmware, then you'll be golden.
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  12.  @russellmorland7382  Think of it this way, if you had a physical switch and a password, you could protect it from local and remote attacks. The physical switch could enable a password to be attempted, and it could wipe the BIOS after a certain number of failed attempts. It would make the only way to modify it local, switch activated, and password protected all in one, but still allow you to easily install whatever BIOS you want.
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  13.  @russellmorland7382  Most BIOS's don't use flash memory, popping the battery off the board, or the chip will zero it.
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