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by joelanders 4420 days ago
If you like this, you'll also like Peter Stuge's 30c3 talk: Hardening hardware and choosing a #goodBIOS

"A commodity laptop is analyzed to identify exposed attack surfaces and is then secured on both the hardware and the firmware level against permanent modifications by malicious software as well as quick drive-by hardware attacks by evil maids, ensuring that the machine always powers up to a known good state and significantly raising the bar for an attacker who wants to use the machine against its owner."

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5529_-_en_-_...

And this is the best blog post I know of on the above:

https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/replacing-a-thinkpad-x60-...