On 3/12/19 3:39 PM, William Herrin wrote:
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 2:50 PM <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu
<mailto:valdis.kletni...@vt.edu>> wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:45:23 -0700, William Herrin said:
> > In many cases, only the foreground app has a clear understanding
of the
> > state of the screen. Not the OS and definitely not the hardware
platform.
> > I'd be super pissed if I died in Overwatch because the BIOS tried
to take
> > over the screen to display an amber alert.
>
> Would you be super pissed if you died for real because Overwatch
suppressed a
> tornado or other severe weather alert relevant to your location?
Serious
> question here.
I'd prefer if my computer's BIOS didn't talk to the network at all,
that being far more likely to open a path for malware than to save me
from a tornado. Some things just have "bad idea" written all over
them. Serious answer.
What's with perpetuating the thought that it needs to be in the bios?
It's just a normal app on a normal computer like Biff.
Mike
