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by gruez 3083 days ago
>If I let someone have physical access to any computer I own I fully expect to be compromised.

What about if you're sleeping?

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I've got 4 dogs and live in a rural area. You'd have to be bat shit crazy to want to mess with my stuff.

That said, it's a silly argument. If you don't secure your devices then you're gonna have a bad time. Just a fact of life, it's always been that way. Give a hacker physical access to a box and enough time and they are getting in. I do it routinely if I forgot a root password, boot knoppix, fix the root password on the boot disk, reboot.