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Re:Hacking Team Uses UEFI BiOS Rootkit to Keep RCS 9 Agent i... by RexRollman on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @07:56AM (#9884151)
UEFI is simply over-engineered.
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Re:Hacking Team Uses UEFI BiOS Rootkit to Keep RCS 9 Agent i... by wyldfire on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @08:18AM (#9884257)
And yet traditional BIOSes reuse features, implementation and design from the dawn of personal computing. They strike me as an unreliable black art.

Bootstrapping computers is "hard" and there's a huge disincentive to breaking compatibility with operating systems' installation/bootstrapping.

I'm not sure if EFI/UEFI are ideal, but it strikes me as a net win.

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Re:Hacking Team Uses UEFI BiOS Rootkit to Keep RCS 9 Agent i... by RexRollman on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @02:50PM (#9887167)
Without a doubt, the classic BIOS needed improvement, but we didn't need this. The situation reminds me of IPv6, which is also grossly over-engineered.
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