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| − | '''BIOS''' (basic input/output system) is a firmware program run on PC, which initiates during the booting of the [[computer]]. It is responsible for initializing the computer's hardware, selecting an [[operating system]], and starting that system.<ref>http://smallbusiness.chron.com/purpose-bios-computer-69278.html</ref> | + | '''BIOS''' (basic input/output system) is a firmware system which runs all modern computers. It initiates during the start up of the [[computer]], and is responsible for initializing the computer's hardware, selecting an [[operating system]], and starting that system.<ref>http://smallbusiness.chron.com/purpose-bios-computer-69278.html</ref> Additionally, if the main [[operating system]] encounters a serious problem which results in what is labeled a "hard stop error" (sometimes less accurately called a "crash"), the computer will usually revert to the BIOS to display an error message. On PCs, this kind of message is displayed as white text on a blue background, and has become known as the "Blue Screen of Death" or simply a "Blue Screen." |
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| − | ==Prescient Quotes on Bios Level Surveillance==
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| − | * "The progress of [[science]] in furnishing the [[big government|government]] with means of [[espionage]] is not likely to stop with [[wiretap]]ping. Ways may some day be developed by which the [[Police state|government]], without removing papers from [[hard disk|secret drawers]], can reproduce them in [[Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court|court]], and by which it will be enabled to expose to a [[jury]] the most intimate occurrences of the home. Advances in the [[computer science|psychic and related sciences]] may bring means of exploring unexpressed beliefs, thoughts and emotions. 'That places the [[liberty]] of every [[citizen|man]] in the hands of every [[tyrant|petty officer]]' was said by James Otis of much lesser [[tyranny|intrusions]] than these. 1 To Lord Camden a far slighter intrusion seemed '[[subversive]] of all the comforts of society.' Can it be that the [[Constitution]] affords no [[Right to Privacy|protection]] against such invasions of [[Fourth Amendment|individual security]]?"
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| − | ** [[Louis Brandeis]]''' (1856-1941), [[United States Supreme Court]] [[Associate Justice]] Dissenting, ''[[Olmstead v. United States]]'', 277 U.S. 438 (1928).
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| − | ==See Also==
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| − | * [[Tails (operating system)|Tails Anonymous Secure Operating System]]
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| − | * [[Linux]]
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| − | * [[IBM]], [[HP]], [[Dell]] and [[Microsoft]] [[Windows]]
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| − | * [[Apple Computer]] [[MacOS]] for [[Apple Macintosh]]
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| − | * '''[[Security]] [[Software]] and [[Security-focused operating systems|Security-Focused Operating Systems]]''' to protect [[unalienable rights|unalienable]] [[Fifth Amendment]] - [[Fourth Amendment]] [[Right to Privacy]] ([[Internet privacy]], [[Information privacy]], [[Expectation of privacy]]) and [[Second Amendment]] - [[First Amendment]] ([[Freedom of information]] and [[Political freedom]]) rights against [[unconstitutional]] [[Gun control]] - [[Internet censorship]] [[Big government]] [[Police state]], [[hackers]], and "[[5 U.S.C. § 3331|all enemies, foreign and domestic]]" of [[American values|American]] [[liberty]].
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| − | ** '''[[Anonymity]] with [[Tails (operating system)|Tails Operating System]]''': [[Linux]]-based with [[Tor (anonymity network)]], [[Firefox]] [[Iceweasel]] [[browser]], [[HTTPS Everywhere]] [[encryption]]
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | * https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2014/02/12/amrd-t-a-i-l-s-plastic-gloves-for-your-computer-american-redoubt - [[Tails operating system]]
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| − | * http://lifehacker.com/just-delete-me-is-a-massive-list-of-links-to-close-all-1245040101
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