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A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] wendigolibre@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

They dont require physical access, but they require access to a non-root account on the machine. How often do you create accounts on your local machine for malicious actors to use?

When you do a new OS install, do you create a separate user account for guests and then share the login details with random people?

[โ€“] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

Right, because it's impossible to get a person's credentials in this day and age.