From: "Gary Britt" 

They could also easily put one or two extra chips on the motherboard that
could read and write info to memory, hard disks, and communicate via the
internet.

Gary

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 21 May 2006 00:52:20 +1200, black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don
> Hills)
> wrote:
>
>>Laugh? I nearly shat myself.
>
>   What was so funny?  It looked just like routine precautions in an
> environment where even the monitors need special provisions to prevent EMI
> leaking screen contents to eavesdroppers.    Supposedly there's a BIOS
> version of Lojack that is effective even if the thief reloads the OS.
> Why
> not BIOS spyware?
>     And it would be trivial to bundle spyware with the recovery CD that
> would go active only when the outgoing web proxy is active, passing on
> whatever information it had collected.

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