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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] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even now if someone has physical access to your Windows computer and it has a USB port, they will get through.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not if you activated a BIOS password which blocks booting from USB (and can't be reset by jumpers or removing the CMOS battery on modern motherboards), or Bitlocker which blocks copying cmd.exe over the accessibility options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Well yeah. But that depends on a person doing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I wonder how hard it would be to set up a machine so that it modifies or melts a USB drive being used like that.