# Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password
We found a laptop laying around the office that had BIOS password enabled. On top
of that, the laptop had secure boot turned on. We wanted to run an OS that was not signed with Microsoft's keys, so
we really needed a way to get into the setup utility.
Some minor details have been changed to obfuscate the manufacturer and the model of the target laptop.
## Table of Contents
* [Table of Contents](#table-of-contents)
* [UEFI Primer](#uefi-primer)
* [Glossary](#glossary)
* [The Boot Process](#the-boot-process)
* [Firmware Filesystem](#firmware-filesystem)
* [Flash Black Magic](#flash-black-magic)
* [Dumping the Flash](#dumping-the-flash)
* [Parsing the Flash](#parsing-the-flash)
* [Messing with NVRAM](#messing-with-nvram)
* [Breaking and Entering](#breaking-and-entering)
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