Thinking of buying a second hand Elite Desk small factor to throw Linux on. I’m worried about the HP firmware-bios thingy. Does it call home? Can I disable calling home somehow? Can it have access to my hard drive info ?

  • bbbhltz@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    This sounds like a privacy concern. Maybe one of the privacy communities will have a better answer.

    You’re worried that the bios will ping hp and hand over info, is this something that you have info on?