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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/12/19 5:34 PM, William Herrin
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:04 PM Michael Thomas
<<a href="mailto:mike@mtcc.com" moz-do-not-send="true">mike@mtcc.com</a>>
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> On 3/12/19 3:39 PM, William Herrin wrote:<br>
>> I'd prefer if my computer's BIOS didn't talk to the
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<div dir="ltr">>> far more likely to open a path for
malware than to save me from a tornado.</div>
<div dir="ltr">>> Some things just have "bad idea" written
all over them. Serious answer.<br>
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> What's with perpetuating the thought that it needs to be
in the bios? It's just a normal app on a normal computer like
Biff.<br>
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On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Michael Thomas <<a
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> it should just be a requirement of the<br>
> hardware platform to implement this.</div>
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<p>Oh, I meant like Android or IOS. or Ubuntu disto or... And that
it's only required on certain hardware platforms, ie your toaster
doesn't need to start popping up and down in morse code.</p>
<p>Mike<br>
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