"Dustin" <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in
> newsp.v07k0xqda3w0dxdave@hodgins.homeip.net:
>
>> On Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:50:54 -0400, Dustin
>> <bughunter.dustin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, and switching to linux still ****s you, when the optionrom2
>>> calls home on your internet connection and finds out she's stolen.
>>> Which it will do, when it cannot drop the exe file. LOL. Whan
>>> happens next is a
>>
>> If it's using a windows executable, to phone home, that won't work.
>
> You seem to be missing something important. It can use the windows
> executable, but in the event it cannot drop it in a specified amount of
> time, it halts the boot process.
>
>> Are you saying the option rom can establish an internet connection
>> before the operating system boots?
>
> I'm not only saying that, but, being as I've extracted a viable sample of
> the option rom and have since learned how to remove it, I *know* the
> company is lying about the products limitations and abilities.

Have you been analyzing the OEM partnered persistence version or just
the software CD loadable version?