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wyldfire on July 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hacking Team Uses UEFI BiOS Rootkit to Keep RCS 9 ...

And yet traditional BIOSes reuse features, implementation and design from the dawn of personal computing. They strike me as an unreliable black art.

Bootstrapping computers is "hard" and there's a huge disincentive to breaking compatibility with operating systems' installation/bootstrapping.

I'm not sure if EFI/UEFI are ideal, but it strikes me as a net win.

RexRollman on July 14, 2015 [–]

Without a doubt, the classic BIOS needed improvement, but we didn't need this. The situation reminds me of IPv6, which is also grossly over-engineered.

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