Down the Rabbit Hole – Part I: A Journey into the UEFI Land

I would like to bypass or remove the whitelist mechanism that is embedded into the BIOS of my T430. There are actually more than one way to solve this problem:

Since I wanted this to be a reverse engineering task, I chose to go with modifying my laptop’s BIOS. Wikipedia provides some more insight:

A little googling yields a blog post on reverse engineering UEFI firmware by Jethro Beekman, which was extremely helpful:

Armed with theoretical and practical knowledge, now I can tackle the BIOS dump with more courage.

Source: erfur.github.io