By definition evil maid attacks involve altering a device in an undetectable way. So if I lock the BIOS, set the HDD to boot first and put a HDD password will this prevent it?
Access to the computer won't be possible as the HDD would be the first to boot and would ask for a password, so no one could try and brute force the BIOS password.And if some one tries to reset the BIOS password then I will find out as it will become clear to me the password has been removed.