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		ficklepickle on Dec 2, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MacOS Update Accidentally Undoes Apple's “root” Bu... Maybe this[1] one? Hit enter 30 times to get a root initramfs on encrypted, Debian based distros. My laptop was vulnerable to this one for quite a while. [1] http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2016-4484/CVE-2016-4484_cryptsetu...

Vogtinator on Dec 2, 2017 [–]

Which is really not a bad vulnerability as the data is still encrypted. Physical access means root anyway.

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