• phx@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    BIOS is a set of baked-in software routines that mediate certain operations between software and hardware. In theory it could be reverse-enginereed and thus emulated just like the rest of the hardware

    On older systems yeah, but on newer systems that rely on cryptographic keys and DRM - and circumventing DRM can still be a crime - it’s not so cut and dry. You can’t “emulate” away the encryption