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The idea is to stop you getting rootkits that can never be removed. You want to feel safe knowing you can just wipe your computer and start again.



You can usually flash BIOS while wiping your computer in the same way that a malware does except in very rare cases. Also Secure Boot doesn't remove the kind of rootkit that doesn't get removed along with the storage since it has to boot from your hard drive anyway.




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