Comment on Hacker shows how a cigarette lighter can grant you root access

cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not if the storage is encrypted. That’s why vulnerabilities in operating systems/kernel are so impactful, as they can bypass that encryption.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well no, if the device is powered off you need to brute force the encryption which will take a very long time.

    However, if the device is booted you can just read from ram.

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