Re: [Sheflug] Asus - Express Gate is here

[Robin Wood <robin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:16 +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Robin
> 
> > I'd like to know if you could access the linux stuff from your main
> > OS, i.e. boot windows then fire up the linux stuff. You'd have a PC
> > in a PC. And if there were vulnerabilities in the embedded code
> > could you get linux exploits that targeted windows machines?
> 
> You can do it easily with Ubuntu and Kubuntu and so I should think you 
> could do it with any other version of Linux.
> 

It would depend on whether you could actually access the embedded stuff
once you'd booted or not. It sounds like it is in a way going to replace
the BIOS and I've never seen a way to access that from anywhere other
than hitting a key on boot.

It would be really nice if you could though.

Robin

> 
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