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Chipsec should only be used on test systems!

It should not be installed/deployed on production end-user systems.

There are multiple reasons for that:

1. Chipsec kernel drivers provide direct access to hardware resources to

user-mode applications (for example, access to physical memory). When installed on

production systems this could allow malware to access privileged hardware resources.

2. The driver is distributed as source code. In order to load it on Operating System

which requires kernel drivers to be signed (for example, 64 bit versions of

Microsoft Windows 7 and higher), it is necessary to enable TestSigning (or equivalent)

mode and sign the driver executable with test signature. Enabling TestSigning

(or equivalent) mode turns off an important OS kernel protection and should not be done

on production systems.

3. Due to the nature of access to hardware, if any chipsec module issues incorrect access

to hardware resources, Operating System can hang or panic.

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