Windows on New Macbook Pro Permanently Damages Speaker Due to Poor Drivers

Why does the bios/firmware have no safeguard against this? Imagine a rogue program or virus damaging your hardware, even on OS X.

Also, the headline is jumping to conclusions, this is what the poster wrote:

" It is unclear what the source is, but most people are suspecting the deprecated audio driver on Windows."

Well, that makes up for an interesting ransomware - you have 48h to pay up 4 btc or your shiny new mbp hardware will get borked.

I have to imagine that any self-respecting author would use '1812 Overture' just for style points.

What would the mechanism look like for a firmware fix? The driver doesn't go through any firmware to drive the audio.