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by lawnchair_larry 5388 days ago
That risk level is not at all on par with this though. That won't help with filevault turned on, and it requires both a reboot and a physical presence at the machine. This can be done remotely with shell access, and discloses hashes from other accounts.
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In other words, it can be done remotely through a browser exploit.
This also won't help with filevault turned on.