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0 pointswalrus015y ago0 comments

to extend that to its logical conclusion, if you have full access to the hardware, many things are possible. so you've stolen a desktop computer and it has unbreakable full disk encryption, but you don't care about the data, you just want to use the computer? remove the M.2 NVME SSD and replace it with your own, install a new operating system.

or boot the thing from a dban ISO and wipe the SSD, re-use it.

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justaj5y ago· 1 in thread

Wouldn't something like Secure Boot help against that though?

walrus01OP5y ago

without going into too much spoiler like detail, at one point a martian marine who presumably has admin access over the ship, gives an order to the ship to give the equivalent of root to everyone on board. presumably this would be like copying a dm-crypt/LUKS secret key or similar.

0823498723498725y ago

Some in-show evidence that there may not be much variety in computing platforms is that several screens we see in different ships have the same graphical elements but have been localised to english and lang belta respectively.

Judging from our past several decades of network effects, I'd guess earth-origin operating systems will still dominate, with perhaps a long tail of poorly-adopted alternatives (as with, on the language side, BELTABOL: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zTGjy9KeW4cqagXHlVDwKmcZ1mE... ).

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