I'm working with a local charity to refurb donated laptops for them to release back into the community and they get a lot of ex-business laptops with BIOS passwords set. It's really annoying!If you're a business IT person donating old hardware, pretty ...
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I'm working with a local charity to refurb donated laptops for them to release back into the community and they get a lot of ex-business laptops with BIOS passwords set. It's really annoying!
If you're a business IT person donating old hardware, pretty please with a cherry on top remove the BIOS passwords first xxx -
@[email protected] with my current deployment, i decommission them by fully wiping the bios. if i don't do that, the boot keys will still be on there and folks could potentially find a way in to our networks.
this is intentional. when someone finishes their contract with the company, i'm to provide them the master password so they can do this and take full ownership of the laptop. also there's an economic incentive: it's cheaper for the company to mark it as a loss or to sell it, rather than pay to have it shipped back (usually across borders)
as an admin, i wish i had/glad we don't have a way to do this remotely. not like it doesn't exist, it just seems hella insecure.
