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An article from July, but I bet you haven't updated your bios! Or you left it open on purpose?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The repository included the private portion of the platform key in encrypted form. The encrypted file, however, was protected by a four-character password,

How do you fuck up this badly?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

This is so incredibly stupid.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

good. they can't lock our devices down that way.

use full disk encryption backed by a strong password if you want security.