Re: security: delete BIOS password in keyboard buffer during kernel bootup

From: Mathias Schnarrenberger
Date: Sat Nov 08 2008 - 09:36:56 EST


>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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