[OLPC-devel] Requirements for a field BIOS reflashing tool.

David Woodhouse david at woodhou.se
Fri Jun 16 12:16:36 EDT 2006


On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 18:07 +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> I thought that the space bar has to be held down for 5 seconds during
> early boot. If that also works later, it will be very easy to trick
> people in holding down the space bar for so long, simply by offering
> them a game which has the space bar as "fire" key and they have to
> keep it down to eliminate their opponent. 

We should make sure that they can't abuse the DCON chip to keep
something like that displayed on the screen while a reboot happens.

-- 
dwmw2




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