From: Jacob Weeks (jaweeks@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 28 2006 - 18:09:09 EDT
I've had to refurb panasonic laptops before, and they have a special
cable you need to connect from the ps2 port to the com1 port (been a
few years there, might be off), with the correct pinout blows out a
boot password. They gave us the directions to create the cable, they
didn't sell it or give it to us.
Dell might have somthing similar.
On 6/28/06, Nervox <nervox@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings
>
> Part of a small audit i did in the company some laptops are found to
> have a password(either PoP or just to change values in the BIOS).On a
> desktop most of the time all you need is to take out the battery to
> get rid of it, but for laptops (DELL in this case) i know that it is
> in (if memory serve correct) an EPROM.In case of theft i know that the
> PoP will protect form a casual thief but i know first hand that DELL
> has a backdoor system , they send the serial number to the mother
> company (always wanted to say that) they check if it stolen and if not
> they send a password to be entered.
> Now is there a possibility that someone has created a generator for
> these password?Is it known ? I mean security throughout obscurity (if
> you can call it like this in this case) is obviously something that i
> wouldn't trust.
>
> Any comment /Ideas?
>
> Best Regards Nervox
>
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