On: Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password

[Legogris]

Sure, it's just that the only situation I see a BIOS password making sense is in the presence of some intrusion-detection mechanism that would perform some kind of destruction/lockdown/alarm so that attempting to bypass it would not be without consequences.

[tomlong → Legogris]

They are good for stopping people fiddling in large scale corporate deployments where someones nephew knows how to make the work laptop go faster.