Why do modern BIOS ROM's have an embedded FTP and DHCP client/server?

Brb decompiling my BIOS's ROM.

>>62116691
WOL requires an IP address, FTP allows downloading of patches from the BIOS menu

>>62116691
>not using trannyboot

>>62117102
I disabled that botnet setting in the BIOS menu. It's sill it's a random FTP server running at the BIOS level, a privilege level above the operating system.

B O T N E T

>>62117102

WOL also can use a MAC address which burned into the networking chip, which is also built into the motherboard

>>62116691
Not an issue unless your computer is connected directly to the internet without a router or firewall.

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>>62116691
Um, nothing personel sweetie, but I use Libreboot.

>>62117277
Ah so your router and/or firewall is perfect security I take it.
Luckily, these devices have never been compromised ever so having a bios-level backdoor is perfectly safe.

>>62117369
If someone compromised my firewall I'd have worse things to worry about than BIOS-level backdoors.

>>62117307
trannyboot*

>>62116691
Some people boot their servers to an operating system that is not on a local disk. To net boot it requires stuff like this.