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.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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