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Firewalls and BIOS's and Coreboot (2020)


I’m into computer security a little bit and always striving to learn more.  I’m also a firm believer in Open Source software.  In Proprietary software you don’t know really know what’s going on.  Case in point:  Alexa, Siri, Hey Google.  They say it isn’t spying on you but you know that it is. With Open […]

You run your Open Source OS which gets launched by a firmware (BIOS – Built In Operating System) which is PROPRIETARY!. Major exploits such as HeartBleed (remember that scare a few years ago) live and breathe in the firmware. Since I won’t put Coreboot on this older appliance I did go ahead and install Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on it.

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