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| From | Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Debian 9 |
| Date | 2017-06-28 01:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tX7Mm-7kb-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Hello,
On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:41:57PM -0400, Fungi4All wrote:
> Is this [booting a live distribution] all it takes to hack the
> root account of a secure debian system?
If an attacker has physical access to your running hardware then you
have always lost. In some cases not even encryption will save you
from a motivated and resourceful attacker:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack
This has been the same forever, on all Linux distributions, Windows
and pretty much any other operating system.
Cheers,
Andy
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