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Excuse my English.
I bought about a month "Alienware m17x-r3", and has a gap in security.
The Dell support would change my motherboard, but when the technician came,
refused, I wanted him to see the problem. The problem is not hardware but
the programming that the bios.
The Hardwar would be a failure, only if after setting the password, do not ask,
even to enter the bios, but instead asks. If I enter the bios with that of "superuser"
allows you to change all the options, but if I put the "user" I can
change only a few.
Ivece to show off a lot of choreography with the initial boot image, which occupies
much memory, they could create a more configurable bios, adding
password to boot the system by including the block below password
the hard disk, turning off the boot, internal or external devices, for
as DVD, USB stick, short iserendo more configurable options,
in order to make the BIOS more versatile. They could also insert a test
fast memory.
To violate the security of this system is very easy, just boot from a cd
LINUX-LIVE, any distribution, the harddisk install the windows and wallow in it.
Hopefully they update the BIOS in the future, to close this gap in security.
I tried it on a Dell desktop PC, and I entered the harddisk with windows
ease.
Hello.
allienware "M17x-R3" has a serious security hole
Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Loris-1, May 22, 2012.
