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jenniferk | 12 years ago | on: Your USB cable, the spy: Inside the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic

>One BIOS attack, called SWAP, was developed by the NSA to attack a number of types of computers and operating systems by loading surveillance and control software at boot-up. SWAP uses the Host Protected Area on a computer’s hard drive to store the payload and installs it before the operating system boots.

Won't the much maligned UEFI Secure Boot in Windows 8 stop this?

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