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mike_esspe
on Jan 26, 2014
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Inception - Root any machine over FireWire, Thunde...
You should always hibernate to crypted partition, when you are away from you computer. With modern SSD it's fast.
ge0rg
on Jan 26, 2014
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You should never leave a sensitive device like your laptop unattended. A sophisticated attacker can replace your bootloader with a backdoored version that stores the encryption paraphrase to disk in plain.
giovannibajo1
on Jan 26, 2014
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That's what safe boot is for. You can't do this on a chrome book or a windows 8 laptop which is safe boot locked.
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