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by lern_too_spel 2764 days ago
> For so long we've gone by the mantra that physical access means you have root.

This hasn't been the case for a long time. Chromebooks shipped with "verified boot" since the first consumer hardware in 2011. Windows machines have been shipping with UEFI secure boot, which Apple uses the T2 chip to implement, for the past 6 years.