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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 20:57:46 -0600
From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] First-timer help
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005, Tim Newsham wrote:

> Yah, now you're just trusting the bios, the local disk (if any)
> and the network.  Much more secure ;-)

it will be even more fun with the newer BIOSes (e.g. EFI) that support 
arbitrary driver modules, tasks, and can even run programs. All stored on 
a flash file system on the mainboard. 

This will make life interesting. 

ron