Hey guys,
Bought myself Surface Pro 4 tablet today on a local craigslist-type website.
I've seen that UEFI was password protected and of course the seller forgot the password, but decided to buy it anyway.
Really needed such a tablet to use with RomRaider to do some logging/tuning on my car.
It has secure boot turned off and boots from USB, so I've formatted SSD and have done clean win10 install.
Works fine, but wanted to ask, are there any real security risks associated with UEFI settings on Surface (remote access etc.)?
From what I've seen on Microsoft's website it hasn't got too many settings anyway.. Having secure boot off doesn't bother me.
But of course it would be nice to turn cameras off in uefi, as I don't need them.
As I understand it's not possible to extract password from bios dump, as on Surface pro 3.
Anyway, what do you think, should I leave it as is?
Bought myself Surface Pro 4 tablet today on a local craigslist-type website.
I've seen that UEFI was password protected and of course the seller forgot the password, but decided to buy it anyway.
Really needed such a tablet to use with RomRaider to do some logging/tuning on my car.
It has secure boot turned off and boots from USB, so I've formatted SSD and have done clean win10 install.
Works fine, but wanted to ask, are there any real security risks associated with UEFI settings on Surface (remote access etc.)?
From what I've seen on Microsoft's website it hasn't got too many settings anyway.. Having secure boot off doesn't bother me.
But of course it would be nice to turn cameras off in uefi, as I don't need them.
As I understand it's not possible to extract password from bios dump, as on Surface pro 3.
Anyway, what do you think, should I leave it as is?
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