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Re: Worst cast worm damage estimates: Research

  • From: Edward B. Dreger
  • Date: Sat Jun 05 22:13:45 2004

SD> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 04:49:21 -0400 (EDT)
SD> From: Sean Donelan


SD> That's less than $400 per defective motherboard.  Your paper
SD> estimates it would cost more than double to replace a
SD> scrambled BIOS.

Definitely sounds high, especially considering the cheap end with
socketed a DIPP BIOS:  Boot from "loaner" BIOS chip.  Remove
loaner BIOS.  Insert chip containing scrambled BIOS.  Flash.


Eddy
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