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Re:High Sierra vulnerability exposes the password of an encr... by headShrinker on Thursday October 05, 2017 @11:36AM (#15410006)
There’s probably some easy explanation but why is there a need separate code to store variables for the ssd vs hdd version? I would think this would be high level code, abstracted far away from any hardware differences
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Re:High Sierra vulnerability exposes the password of an encr... by jsjohnst on Thursday October 05, 2017 @12:09PM (#15410285)
I believe the SSD vs HDD issue is not about the password hint codepath, but rather that APFS is only supported on SSDs right now.
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