[NBLUG/talk] [NBLUG/Announce] General meeting TONIGHT: (Backdoor) Free BIOSes with Libreboot

Allan Cecil allan at nblug.org
Tue Sep 8 11:02:48 PDT 2015


Welcome back from Labor Day weekend.  Today is Tuesday and tonight is our September general meeting.  I've been interested in having at least one known secure system and I'm looking forward to Kyle's talk.  See you tonight,

A.C.
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On 09/04/2015 08:39 AM, Allan Cecil wrote:
> When: September 8th, 2015 7:30 pm
> Speaker: Kyle Rankin
> Location: O'Reilly Media at 1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol, CA in
> the Tarsier conference room past the metal statue and to the right
> (http://nblug.org/locations)
> 
> Title: (Backdoor) Free BIOSes with Libreboot
> 
> Description:
> While Linux users have spent a lot of time using free software on their
> computers, usually that stops at the operating system. Being able to view
> and modify your source code not only gives you more freedom, it gives you
> more security, in particular from back doors. What's good for the OS is
> good for the BIOS, which malware hackers, Lenovo, and state-sponsored
> attackers have all used to persist their exploits. 
> 
> In this talk Kyle will cover Libreboot, a completely free software
> distribution of the open source Coreboot BIOS and discuss the current state
> of hardware support for Libreboot and how to install it, including a brief
> description of how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a flashrom BIOS-flashing
> platform.
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