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Phoenix Bios to Incorporate DRM

Posted by michael on from the goodbye-free-software dept.

defishguy writes "Extreme Tech is reporting that Phoenix Technologies is shopping a DRM-capable BIOS to OEMS. Reportedly the BIOS with DRM enabled allows for software to be tracked and traced from one PC to another." See also this older story about AMI.

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  1. Re:Hrmm... by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not at all. Why would it?

    At most you'd be flashing cryptographically signed bios files, which would have the nice side effect of making it impossible to flash the wrong bios and turn your fancy PC into a useless Mac.

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