What's the worst that could happen to a laptop with whatever flavor of GNU/Linux that has been left alone for hours, besides getting stolen? Let's assume there's no screenlocker but still need a password for privilege elevation.

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Anonymous 2021-07-04 (Sun) 04:31:24 No.9789

What's the worst that could happen to a laptop with whatever flavor of GNU/Linux that has been left alone for hours, besides getting stolen? Let's assume there's no screenlocker but still need a password for privilege elevation.

Anonymous 2021-07-04 (Sun) 04:32:42 No.9790

You get all your saved online accounts compromised?

Anonymous 2021-07-04 (Sun) 13:41:32 No.9806

someone cooming on the keyboard

Anonymous 2021-07-04 (Sun) 16:33:36 No.9811

>hours
Someone flashes your motherboard with spyware.

Anonymous 2021-07-04 (Sun) 19:46:13 No.9819

you can literally use a trivial utility like bashbunny to brute force your password, probably in a matter of minutes, and then make a copy of your harddrive. This is why you always use full disk encryption.

Anonymous 2021-07-04 (Sun) 20:06:16 No.9821

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Unironically safer than windows since most users don't understand how to use windows

pic related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJtjZ-Skio

If the person is IT knowledgeable and knows how to look up for exploits and vulnerabilities, you arefucked up regardless of what you are using

Anonymous 2021-07-04 (Sun) 20:07:35 No.9822

>full disk encryption
It better be full disk encryption (only possible with a coreboot/libreboot payload or using a USB drive as a decryption key) or you are susceptible to what's known as an evil maid attack.

https://twopointfouristan.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/pwning-past-whole-disk-encryption/

Anonymous 2021-07-05 (Mon) 00:16:57 No.9838

>>9819
how well does bashbunny work? What if my password is 100 bits of entropy? How well…..

Anonymous 2021-07-05 (Mon) 00:22:38 No.9840

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>>9822
>Ubuntu

You already fucked up.

Anonymous 2021-07-05 (Mon) 11:11:49 No.9853

>>9821
you fucked up the link anon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJtjZ-SkioM

Anonymous 2021-07-06 (Tue) 02:41:18 No.9878

Wouldn't just /dev/zeroing your drive after backing it up with a live image be enough to get rid of any tampering (on the software level)?

Anonymous 2021-07-06 (Tue) 05:05:27 No.9886

>>9878
maybe not if they could flash compromised bios or install some physical keylogger or other bugs?
(on the software level then yes?)

Anonymous 2021-07-09 (Fri) 00:15:43 No.9945

>>9789
as long as your disk is unencrypted and no BIOS password is set it is easy to boot from a USB drive and access all your data

Anonymous 2021-07-09 (Fri) 01:29:25 No.9946

>hard drive dump
>bruteforce dictionary attack
>bios specific vulnerability
>hardware keylogger (hard to do)
>swap out WiFi chip for compromised one
That's all I got

Anonymous 2021-07-09 (Fri) 07:46:36 No.9951

>>9789
What a shit question. Depends on what was on it, duh. If you really want hypotheticals then I guess the absolute worst is that it could lead to nuclear holocaust.

Anonymous 2021-07-09 (Fri) 13:46:06 No.9959

Someone might install Windows on it.

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