BIOS Passwords Are Ridiculously Easy to Circumvent
November 15th, 2010
Setting the BIOS password on your laptop may seem like a smart idea, but it turns out that you can easily reverse engineer the password from information displayed by the laptop. The linked article has scripts that will do this for a variety of manufacturers and models. Of course, it’s not that difficult to reset the BIOS password using other methods—my motherboard, for instance, has a jumper that will reset the BIOS settings to their defaults.
Link: http://dogber1.blogspot.com/…
(via Lifehacker)
