Discuss BIOS and Palladium Issues With an AMIBIOS Rep

Posted by Roblimo on Monday January 13, 2003 @05:00AM from the is-trustworthy-computing-trustworthy? dept.

After this Slashdot discussion about the relationship between BIOS biggie American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) and Palladium appeared, we got an email from AMI sales engineer (and former Linux.com contributor) Brian Richardson, who wrote, "I am a bit concerned that the information you provided misled your readers into thinking AMI was promoting Palladium or taking some sort of anti-open-source stance. This might be due to the fact that TCPA was mistakenly equated to Palladium, or questioning how Linux would run on a TCPA-enabled system ... or by the horde of angry Slashdot readers telling us they would never buy an AMI product because we were forcing standards on them." Brian offered himself up as (his words) a "Slashdot interview victim" to clear things up.(Update by RM: And, says Brian, he's happy to answer other BIOS questions as well.) So ask, already, and let's get things cleared up. (Usual Slashdot interview rules.)

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Re:How can we confirm that NO BS is in your BIOSes by Mitreya · 2003-01-13 05:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Will the BIOS code contain some sort of monitoring code?
Only to catch terrorists...
Will the BIOS contain spyware?
Never! It will contain some select offers from our partners and collect some information to customize and improve your booting experience
Can we really take the word of a conglomerate?
Will you be able to ensure that what you are saying is accurate?
No.
Our EULA will take care of that.
Modern conglomerates usually misrepresent their products if they think it will generate more customers. How can we be sure that you wouldn't be doing this to us?
As the courts become less and less of a threat for a corporation (and already a 0-threat to a corporation from an individual). There is NO way to be sure. Unless all the non-entry level employees in the company will be made to sign all these statements...