Outhere is (certainly outdated
) a catalogue of NSA firmware-hacking tools (ARKSTREAM) for BIOS-spy hacking. ![:hyper:](http://reboot.pro/public/style_emoticons/default/hyper.gif)
Proprietary BIOS firmwares (installed at manufacturing time) are many years now with malicious implants (payloads) which operates above antivirus and any available OS.
Over a billion machines running proprietary BIOS.
BIOS malwares uses certain functions with high-level system privileges to read all data and code that appears into a machine’s memory.
Even the Tails Linux, system that Snowden use to protect himself can’t actually protect him from the NSA or anyone else if use the proprietary UEFI firmware and BIOS. ![:secret:](http://reboot.pro/public/style_emoticons/default/secret.gif)
Possible solution/replacement - LinuxBIOS (Coreboot, Libreboot and SageBIOS) is available only for a limited number of hardware platforms, on the approximately 200 supported motherboards in total. ![:merc:](http://reboot.pro/public/style_emoticons/default/merc.gif)
The truth is sad and hard to swallow ![:duff:](http://reboot.pro/public/style_emoticons/default/duff.gif)