From ee3bf61c84440a59b6d576b38c9ed96b90ebaa19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Francis Rowe
Write protection is useful, because it prevents the firmware from being re-flashed by any malicious software that - might become executed on your GNU/Linux system, as root. In other words, it can prevent an evil maid attack. It's + might become executed on your GNU/Linux system, as root. In other words, it can prevent a firmware-level evil maid attack. It's possible to write protect on all current libreboot systems, but chromebooks make it easy. The screw is such a stupidly simple idea, which all laptop designs should implement.
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