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Re:OnMetal Performance In Early Benchmarks by old-gregg on Thursday July 24, 2014 @12:03PM (#8080306)
What makes you think it's "huge"? How do you think the dedicated hosting industry has been operating for more than a decade? You can re-flush the bios, you can secure-erase the storage, etc.
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Re:OnMetal Performance In Early Benchmarks by cmsj on Thursday July 24, 2014 @04:34PM (#8082016)
Just because the dedicated server hosting industry hasn't been dealing with the problem, doesn't mean it's not there :)

If I flash the BIOS (or the network card firmware or the LOM device firmware or the disk controller firmware or the individual disk firmware, etc) with malicious firmware, it can lie to you when you try to reflash it later, leaving my malicious code running against later customers.

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