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Is there not a presumption that with physical access to a machine it can be rooted if you try hard enough? I certainly make that presumption. The number of Mac
by donatj 10y ago
Is there not a presumption that with physical access to a machine it can be rooted if you try hard enough? I certainly make that presumption.
The number of Macs I've unlocked by creating a new admin by removing the "install is finished" file in single user mode is in the teens.
- marcoperaza 10y agoIf you have Bitlocker setup with TPM and PIN, you should be secure even from attackers with physical access.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoNot if you're still on Win7, like most corporations still mostly are: https://github.com/carmaa/inception/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/carmaa/inception/blob/master/README.md
- Godel_unicode 10y agoThis requires FireWire or thunderbolt, which is relatively uncommon on Windows machines.
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoAu contraire, mini-Firewire has been quite common on business laptops, which are the most common use case for BitLocker.
- marklgr 10y ago> The number of Macs I've unlocked by creating a new admin by removing the "install is finished" file in single user mode is in the teens. What's the procedure, in case I need to unlock a mac someday?
- zyx321 10y agohttp://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/164331/i-dont-have-administrator-account-on-my-mac http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/164331/i-dont-have-... Won't work on an encrypted system, of course.
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoThere is such a presumption, but it's a bit of a mental shortcut, sort of like "water is incompressible". In some scenarios it's still useful to know how obvious the methods are if an attacker is supervised, how much unsupervised time they might need to successfully own the machine, and whether they would need to break any tamper-evident seals that could be checked afterward.