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Old 09-14-2021, 03:26 AM   #33 (permalink)
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If they can encrypt hard drives and everything else with secret keys then it becomes a lot harder to hack computers.
I used to live in that world. The Clipper chip and the UEFI bootloader.

I could edit the (Mac) boot blocks with Norton Disk Editor but Symantec never ported it to OSX. Nowadays if I forget the password I'm toast.

What's you favorite flavor of Linux?
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