Talk:System Management BIOS

SMBIOS globally unique motherboard ID shenanigans can lead to infosecurity management nnightmare.
It is said that SMBIOS standard includes a globally unique identifier for each SMBIOS enabled motherboard ever manufactured, but some unscrupulous hardware brands want to skip paying the industrial coalition for an assigned number space range. Thus they produce several thousands of motherboards with the exact same SMBIOS ID, hoping nobody will notice.

These shipments sometimes end up at an enterprise or large organization customer who uses image cloning for setup and cause havoc with centralized management, e.g. many computers appear with the same name and the security orchestrator system falsely believes OS patches have been installed and AV updated on all endpoints, when in fact only on one and infection comes in... I think the article could address this topic for public benefit. 80.99.111.252 (talk) 10:51, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
 * This would have to be properly sourced, and it might be more relevant in Universally unique identifier than here. (SMBIOS just reports the UUID, it has no control over how it is generated or stored.) By design, GUIDs are not globally managed, so anyone can generate one (or many) at any time and be almost certain that there will be no collisions. Thus, there is no such thing as an "assigned number space range". --gribeco (talk) 23:12, 23 January 2020 (UTC)

Please flesh out the "examples" a bit more.
For whatever reason I understand neither what the given examples "mean" nor how they relate either to each other or to the overarching subject matter.

For that matter, what is the failure mechanism in the given cases. Not asking for precise details but "some such and such fails" is less informative (to me) than "some such and such models become associated with incorrect such and such parameters, leading to failure". And I have idea what the various parts would be, so it would be nice for examples to tell me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C1:C100:9380:0:0:0:6886 (talk) 04:54, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

Intel Management Engine Smbios structure type
Neither Source 13 nor 14 mention structure type 131. 178.197.239.0 (talk) 07:45, 4 July 2024 (UTC)