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What’s the point of a BIOS password?
In addition to davidgo's answer (his answer popped up while I was typing mine, but did not want to discard the answer)
There is still a usercase where password protecting the BIOS is useful.
A ...
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What’s the point of a BIOS password?
There is some validity to your thinking, but you may have overlooked (at least) 2 use cases -
The first one is a way for corporate IT to put up a barrier to make it that much harder for people who don'...
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