This is such a non story. It requires physical access to unattended devices and a sophisticated attack.
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Submitted 7 months ago by Jezebelley@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.world
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soljin@lemm.ee 7 months ago
A_A@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Only 1 ? Are you kidding ??
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Also “may”.
Like I’ve been workin with Windows since v1.x ( when it was really an overglorified file manager on DOS) and we’ve been complaining about it’s security issues since then.
NT at least brought some security with actual user logins and NTFS (thanks to DEC, which created the OS that NT came from), but even then, the code running in ring 0…oh boy.
Windows is a security problem.
skankhunt42@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yeah, it’s the entire thing /s
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 months ago
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
hh93@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Solving security issues with the fingerprint scanner by not supporting it in the first place?
orclev@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Me seeing headline: uh oh
Me seeing the first sentence of article: oh, nevermind, turns out I don’t actually care.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Title creator forgot to add “again, and again, and again”.
Oh, the holy trinity of security problems and getting hacked: Windows, Exchange, Active Directory. How would hackers cope without them?
muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Windows has a security problem. Wow im so suprised
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 7 months ago
Windows is the actual security problem there…
mvirts@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Lol and how many users actually have encrypted data on win 11?
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nearly every enterprise machine is encrypted with bitlocker
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Meanwhile in Linux:
boots to emergency root shell from the grub menu
Problem, linux?
sarchar@programming.dev 7 months ago
Full disk encryption.
LoafyLemon@kbin.social 7 months ago
Laughs in systemd
mvirts@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A sure sign you won’t find anything interesting on that machine 😹
bdonvr@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
You can configure Linux such that that isn’t possible.
Hexagon@feddit.it 7 months ago
This blew my little cousin’s mind when I showed him this trick, and he realized the implications. Fun times
ben_dover@lemmy.world 7 months ago
you don’t say!
mvirts@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ha.
Teknikal@lemm.ee 7 months ago
If someone has physical access I mean it’s almost a certainty they’ll get in anyway, I’m pretty sure it’s always been quite easy to remove passwords etc on windows.
Not something I’ve done myself but yeah I’ve always took that as a given.
xep@kbin.social 7 months ago
Saved you a click.
subignition@kbin.social 7 months ago
If a malicious actor has physical access to your machine, you have already lost. Been that way since the dawn of computing. Full-disk encryption can potentially protect your data from unauthorized access, but it can't really stop a thief from wiping the laptop and making it their own. And if you get it back you probably want to wipe it anyway.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Also can’t stop someone from cloning the disk and waiting until quantum computing is cheap enough to crack it.
Nougat@kbin.social 7 months ago
So it’s not Windows, it’s hardware.