HP bricks customers laptops with faulty automatic BIOS upgrade

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taanegl@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why you need a dual BIOS chipset, that allows you to switch over in case the one has been written over with borked firmware…

But that would be giving the consumer too much power. Can’t have that lol

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