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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by morcheeba on Monday November 23, 2015 @01:09PM (#10616080)
This won't work because the firmware will write a file to your hard drive with the bloatware. It's scary that firmware will modify my filesystem - lots of damage could happen here.

Also, instead of step 2, it would make more sense to boot linux on a usb stick and use dd to erase the hard drive -- this is more complete than installing another OS... but still useless if the firmware is working against you.

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Re:Dell shipping laptop with rogue self-signed root CA by lmz on Monday November 23, 2015 @02:27PM (#10616662)
In this case Windows will write to your filesystem, not the firmware. Of course there is nothing stopping a firmware from writing to the disk before it loads any OS, but that is true with any OS not just Windows.
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