Re: AllBootDisks ISO Image Downloads

On most laptops the bios is on an EEPROM, but this isn't backed up by battery; EEPROMs are non-volatile, and so will keep the password without power. But I agree about the part that the passwords are easy to remove; if the bios is reading the data from an EEPROM, then there is nothing to stop someone building a simple reader circuit , soldering to appropriate pins on the EEPROM and stripping the data off; the password is almost always weakly encrypted, and can then be extracted.
Look at allservice.ro to see what I mean.

Regarding the instructable itself, what are you aiming to show, and who are you writing it for?There seems to be very little actual instructing going on-most people who are not already aware of what you are writing about would probably struggle to boot Windows XP/Knoppix off a USB flash drive, or mess about with a console in either Windows or linux. Even if the purpose of the instructable was to warn people to encrypt their data, you should do this by showing them explicitly step by step how easy it is recover their data. Otherwise write it on a blog, or wiki.