On Ebay there is a brisk trade in BIOS password chips, as well
> as kits for soldering them onto the motherboard.
> More trouble than shorting a jumper, to be sure, but it requires
> more equipment, and that equipment is unlikely to have any other
> reasonable purpose; being discovered with such tools would be a
> dead giveaway.
If you are already opening up the computer, why not just steal the hard drive?
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