From: Mathias Schnarrenberger <mathias.schnarrenberger@gmx.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: security: delete BIOS password in keyboard buffer during kernel bootup
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:36:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811081536.40422.mathias.schnarrenberger@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081108142705.59c1ced7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
>Clear it with a program if it bothers you. You've written 90% of the
>needed code with the program below.
>Alan
Yes, I already wrote the program for my personal usage. But I wanted to share
this information with the open source community. And I think it would be more
secure to implement this into kernel.
Mathias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-08 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-08 10:00 security: delete BIOS password in keyboard buffer during kernel bootup Mathias Schnarrenberger
2008-11-08 14:27 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-08 14:36 ` Mathias Schnarrenberger [this message]
2008-11-08 16:39 ` Olaf van der Spek
2008-11-09 8:41 ` Mathias Schnarrenberger
2008-11-09 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-11 16:18 ` Pavel Machek
2008-11-11 16:54 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-12 8:51 ` Gerhard Mack
2008-11-09 15:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
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