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> "They never shutdown their computers and if it happened, they did a full format and reinstalled the os - because if security." I don't get it
by gavinray 5y ago
> "They never shutdown their computers and if it happened, they did a full format and reinstalled the os - because if security."
I don't get it
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- dosshell 5y agoI don't recall why, it was so long time ago. But my best guess is that they wanted to guarantee that they know what has been booted?
- brobinson 5y agoThe sibling comment already mentioned evil maid attacks (not as much of an issue nowadays thanks to SecureBoot and TPMs), but there's also DMA attacks through physical ports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack
- justsomehnguy 5y agoOffline attack aka Evil Maid