Alaknar comments on A security researcher says Microsoft secretly built a backdoor into BitLocker, releases an exploit to prove it

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -4 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Those are potential vulnerabilities that can be patched

"Potential"? They are actively being exploited. And they don't require physical access to the device.

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[–] wendigolibre@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

They dont require physical access, but they require access to a non-root account on the machine. How often do you create accounts on your local machine for malicious actors to use?

When you do a new OS install, do you create a separate user account for guests and then share the login details with random people?

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[–] Alaknar@sopuli.xyz -4 points 4 months ago

Right, because it's impossible to get a person's credentials in this day and age.

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