Re: Debian 9

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Subject: Re: Debian 9
From: Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 23:06:25 +0000
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Hello,

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:41:57PM -0400, Fungi4All wrote:
> Is this [booting a live distribution] all it takes to hack the
> root account of a secure debian system?

If an attacker has physical access to your running hardware then you
have always lost. In some cases not even encryption will save you
from a motivated and resourceful attacker:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack

This has been the same forever, on all Linux distributions, Windows
and pretty much any other operating system.

Cheers,
Andy

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- Re: Debian 9
  - From: Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>
- Re: Debian 9
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