On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:04 PM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
> On 3/12/19 3:39 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> I'd prefer if my computer's BIOS didn't talk to the network at all, that being 

>> far more likely to open a path for malware than to save me from a tornado.

>> Some things just have "bad idea" written all over them. Serious answer.
>
> 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.

Answer:

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:57 AM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
> it should just be a requirement of the
> hardware platform to implement this.

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.

Mike