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>From:    "William Walker C60223 x4570" <walker@aedc-vax.af.mil>

>I feel that the prominent anti-virus researchers (and some of us
>others) ought to collectively rise up and protest the software-
>upgradable BIOS before it gets any acceptance.

As one who a few careers ago made a living designing digital control systems
("flew" some digitally controlled gas-turbine engines with  8080s at
Tullahoma in the seventies - Hi Bill), there does not have to be a problem
if the hardware designers do their job. A EEPROM requires a special signal
on one lead to tell it to write. If that lead is under hardware control and
accessable only with the case open and a special plug in place that disables
everything except a "load & verify BIOS" program, risk can be minimal.

The point is not to "protest" the concept, it sounds like a good idea, but
demand adequate safeguards (dare I say "standards") for its use.