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		jeroenhd on July 8, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows... Without FDE, modification of the file system to create autoruns and system services is so easy that you wouldn't need to go through the effort of using a bootloader. Just pop out the storage device or boot a Windows install disk and run some software.

Avamander on July 8, 2022 [–]

True, but that assumes physical access, malware probably does not have that.

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