• Ghast@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t know why I keep hearing of security measures to stop someone sleuthing into bootloaders.

    Am I the only person using Linux who isn’t James Bond?

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      so you never caught a team of government officials in your living room brute forcing your bootloader at 4am as you got up to use the bathroom, huh. Lucky guy.

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      I’m an engineer with trade secrets on his laptop. I’ve heard of dozens of people getting laptops stolen from their cars that they left for like ten or fifteen minutes.

      The chances are slims, but if it happens I’m in deep trouble whether those secrets leak of not. I’m not taking the risk. I’m encrypting my disk.

      It’s not like there’s a difference in performance nowadays.

      • duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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        TPM’s not going to help with that situation, though, right? Either you’re typing in your encryption password on boot (in which case you don’t need TPM to keep your password), or you’re not, in which case the thief has your TPM module with the password in it.

        • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr
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          From what I understand, TPM is “trusted” because of the fact the secrets it contains are supposed to be safe from an attacker with hardware access.

          This is what makes it good at protecting data in case of a stolen laptop. This is also what makes it good at enforcing offline DRM or any kind of system where manufacturers can restrict the kind of software users can run on their hardware.

    • JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
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      It’s 30% legitimate concern over a non-negligible risk of government overreach, 70% having fun pretending to be James Bond.

    • The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m still on the hunt for a desktop Linux distro that has no security features or passwords. My usage for this may not be common but it can’t be rare enough that there are zero options

    • MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
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      I mean, i do have some stuff that i encrypt, but encrypting the folder or packing it on a small partitiin and encrypting only this fs after booting makes more sense to me.