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		201984 24 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Wi... Most embedded processors sadly don't have a BIOS, and the signing key is permanently burned into the processor via eFUSEs.

astrobe_ 23 days ago [–]

Yes, BIOS is really a PC-thing, AFAIK. Embedded processors have "bootloaders" which often serve a similar purpose of performing the minimal viable hardware initializations in order to load the OS kernel.

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