• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

2020 Election Fraud, Republicans in Name Only (RINOS), and Political Shenanigans Past and Present







Using USB boot support would provide a mechanism for a computer to override the default startup process with whatever customizations exist on the USB stick.

One could theoretically install a set of software visually identical to the original manufacturers settings, but add their own modifications in as to compromise the system in question. Anyone not checking over the system for physical tampering (both visual identification of the USB stick, as well as unplugging it) at the moment of use would be none the wiser. Once you unplug the USB stick, the computer could reboot back to the original manufacturers settings.

To add context to this:

What you are seeing is the internal ‘boot order’ or instructions the computer is supposed to follow when starting up.

It can be configured to boot (in any order) by checking the local hard drive, the network (PXE boot/Integrated Network Interface Card, or NIC), a usb inserted into the device or by any other supported means.

These are typically LOCKED DOWN hard and inaccessible in corporate settings.
 
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