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its not longer fair to call game over with physical access;

indeed countermeasure like full disk encryption, computrace and Mac firmware passwords are all examples of things we do to raise the difficulty for a physical attacker.



And the vast majority of them is trivially defeated by a bug inline with your USB keyboard.


You can reconstruct a lot of information with a keylogger but nowhere near all of it.




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