Walt Mankowski via plug on 16 Jan 2026 07:42:40 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Woo Hoo! I Made Hackaday!


That's cool, but is it really a "hack" if you haven't actually cracked
it yet? :)

I'm a bit confused about what you're doing. It sounds like HP has a
program that you can run in user-space on Linux that access the bios
settings of the machine it's running on. Is that the case?

I'm a bit surprised that it lets you guess passwords forever, but I
suppose if I knew it would take 180 trillion years to brute force I
might not bother writing any code to lock out the party that's trying
to crack the code, either.

Walt

On Thu, Jan 15, 2026 at 09:14:21PM -0500, Casey Bralla via plug wrote:
> https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/project-fail-cracking-a-laptop-bios-password-using-ai/
> 
> Casey
> 
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