I was helping a friend replacing the battery and thermal paste on his System 76 laptop. Never own one before but I notice it runs a special BIOS version, Coreboot. It turns out there are Coreboot and Lireboot. .These help to boot really fast though.
Anyway, I notice there are no password BIOS lock like on Lenovo. How would this protect against someone plug a USB in and just wipe my drive? On Lenovo you can set a supervisor / boot passwords, and you can remove USB drives from the boot list.
Good question. But if someone unauthorized has physical access to your system, you already have worse problems to worry about…
Yeah, I’ve never even thought about using PW BIOS protection since someone could always just pop out the drive and do whatever with it. I guess if it’s a soldered drive it makes slightly more sense but still easily overcome by anyone who’s determined enough
Full disk encryption is what you want really