Exactly. I have used ssh for "everything" for a decade and half already. Moving files, remote word processing across town, accessing email. Anything goes when you can forward X. Might be tricker with windows - but I don't do windows and haven't used it since version 3.1.

I have on several occasions recovered a working system from an infected boot rom, but it was not easy nor was it straightforward in any sense of the word. Agreed however that if a boot rom is infected most computer techs without a high degree of sophistication and skills will not know how to proceed.

This is an example of what I refer to as "A nearly perfect hack" (analogous to the concept of the perfect murder, leaving little to no evidence allowing the individual committing it to get away Scott free.) In this case you have a low level hardware component as an infection vector and the infection could potentially compromise the information security of the entire system without giving itself away to a malware scanner or virus detection. Even if some of the behavior of the infected system matches a pattern similar to a known root kit or virus or malware on secondary storage, detection and cleaning is confounded by the fact that the infection can re-occur and detection can be confounded by one not being able to trust the data integrity of the machine at runtime in such an infected system. The main takeaway is that the root infection is not where one would normally look for it, on secondary storage or in RAM. Fixing such a thing, in a nutshell, requires being able to examine the system component by component at the hardware level on a non running system which is a somewhat complicated and more involved process than a malware or virus removal or giving up and just re-imaging the system. There are tools to carry out such diagnostics and repairs but it is more in the realm of a digital electronics hardware expert than in the skill set of the average IT Tech.

The 'older' exiled Cubans in America were never going to 'authorize' this. That Obama did, was, aside from the true purpose of stopping the absurdity that has been in place, a play to the youner generation of Cuban exiles that are in Florida and elsewhere that are of voting age. They're the ones this will affect in the coming generation, and not the ones who will die off in the next decade.

Politically, anyone who is damning this decision is an isolationist shill who prefers punishment, rather than progress. THAT, is 20th century thinking, and needs to be squashed hard and fast!

Perhaps the police would be more accommodating of blacks if they didn't commit nearly 60% of all crime while being only around 12% of the population.