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Gone in 70 seconds: Holding Enter key can smash through defense

Sitaram Chamarty
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Gone in 10 seconds...

...my good impressions of El Reg as a tech-savvy pub.

This attack does *not* give you anything you could not get by using a USB boot, CD boot, or PXE (network) boot.

The only situation where you *do* get more than that is in "kiosk" type situations (where the CPU/case/disks are locked away but the keyboard/mouse/monitor are accessible).

And even then, the statement "With access to the shell, an attacker could then decrypt Linux machines" is totally wrong.

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