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Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

You didn't even need to do that. You could hold down the shift key to bypass some passwords, and just click cancel on others.

Early Windows had awful security.