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  1. Bug #1777415
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 1777415

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Markus Laire (malaire) wrote :

"... having physical access means an attacker could simply access the hard disk directly or replace the password on it ..."

Does this bug work when using full disk encryption? If yes, then ABOVE QUOTE IS WRONG since having physical access does NOT mean having access to hard disk contents if hard disk is encrypted.

If this bug allows access to contents of encrypted hard disk, then this is very serious bug indeed.