On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Jon Lindgren wrote:

> To have a
> keystroke essentially disable the NVRAM security seems a bit contradictory
> to me... but I can't argue with the facts.

No, it's reasonable. You can't do this on a serial console, so if you're
making these keystrokes, you've got physical access to the machine. At
that point, it's compromised no matter what you do. You can always just
open it up and pop in a new NVRAM chip, or steal or replace the drive,
or whatever.

cjs
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