Here is a thought for you techies here to ponder: How does the Phoenix 'secre BIOS' stay secure?". This is a serious question, because the posible techniques that would most likely be employed bhave very different bthechnical and comercial/marketing ramifications. For example, is the BIOS code just stored in encrypted form, where it usually resides in Read Olly Memory? If so, where, and how is it decrypted on power-up of the booted device? There are other technical strategies that conceivably be employed, but they all would require a divergence from the scheme by which PCs have been heretofore designed and configured to boot. If you follow this line of thinking, most of the past, in terms of BIOS desi architectural design will be conserved, while making those changes needed to implement a secure paradigm. This suggests that the ROM BIOS code will be embedded in encrypted form, along with some decryption code, but this decryption code will have to be run SOMEWHERE. On the CPU? On a discrete hardware chip? That, to me, is the $64,000 question here.
