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

[Casey Bralla via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

It was a hack that failed :(

There's a windows app (not Linux) that let's you manipulate the BIOS.  
One of those manipulation commands is to change/set/unset the password.  
The app normally runs as a GUI, but can be called from PowerShell with 
admin privileges.  There doesn't seem like there's any limit to the 
number of times it could be run, but at 9 seconds per cycle, who cares.

I swapped the hard drive in the laptop and installed a clean Windows 10, 
then ran a python script in PowerShell to call the HP routine.

On 1/16/26 10:42 AM, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> 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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