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Old 05-20-2009, 05:30 PM   #1
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LXer: Acer Tells Kid's Charity - Pay Up or Shut Up


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When I began triaging the machines to get them ready for our kids, I ran across two of the Acers that had what seemed to be a bios password on them. Not a problem, either flash the bios or pull the battery for some amount of time and problem solved. Uh...no. Not here. Not for these. What I ran into was something that I have ranted about in the past to the point where I almost bored myself. Trusted Computing.

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Old 05-21-2009, 03:08 AM   #2
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I'm going to make sure as many people as possible are aware of this. Well done Acer, hope you enjoy all the negative publicity coming your way!
 
  


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