[gavinray]

  > "They never shutdown their computers and if it happened, they did a full format and reinstalled the os - because if security."

I don't get it

[dosshell]

I don't recall why, it was so long time ago. But my best guess is that they wanted to guarantee that they know what has been booted?

[brobinson]

The sibling comment already mentioned evil maid attacks (not as much of an issue nowadays thanks to SecureBoot and TPMs), but there's also DMA attacks through physical ports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack

[justsomehnguy]

Offline attack aka Evil Maid