From: Mathias Schnarrenberger <mathias.schnarrenberger@gmx.de>
Reply-To: mathias.schnarrenberger@gmx.de
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: security: delete BIOS password in keyboard buffer during kernel bootup
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2008 15:36:39 +0100
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>Clear it with a program if it bothers you. You've written 90% of the
>needed code with the program below.


>Alan

Yes, I already wrote the program for my personal usage. But I wanted to share 
this information with the open source community. And I think it would be more 
secure to implement this into kernel.

Mathias
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