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0 pointsmike_esspe12y ago0 comments

You should always hibernate to crypted partition, when you are away from you computer. With modern SSD it's fast.

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ge0rg12y ago· 1 in thread

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.

giovannibajo112y ago

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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