, SecurityFocus 2006-01-26
ARLINGTON, Virginia -- Insider attacks and industrial espionage could become more stealthy by hiding malicious code in the core system functions available in a motherboard's flash memory, researchers said on Wednesday at the Black Hat Federal conference.

Anonymous
Bullshit. Floppy drives are write protected via hardware connection through the tab on the floppy disk. No magic software can override that-it's internal to the DRIVE itself....
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