That’s a very interesting question.
I don’t think it is offensive at all. I mean this is not mere paranoia, when Lenovo has been caught THREE times doing this.
Now It’s THREE Pre-Installed Malwares on Lenovo Laptops
One of these times WAS BIOS based malware.
Now I use a Cube i7 Book.
This has an American Megatrends Bios… So do I trust them? Yeah probably. But has cube customised this in someway? I don’t know how BIOSes are sold to manufacturers
Its a more accessible bios than the crappy locked down stuff that Atom based devices have.
I mean the Cube has a cool bios. I can install any x86/x64 (UEFI) operating system on my device. Ubuntu boots and works perfect from SD card.
So many possible settings (and ways to potentially brick) the device in the BIOS.
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Do I trust it?
Probably… I mean if the devices aren’t filled with a bunch of bloatware – Think about almost every laptop on the market from a major manufacturer!
Do these smaller Chinese companies really have the programmers and coders to secretly put code somewhere you can’t see it?
I doubt it.
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