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Re:Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Cr... by newnewpdro on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:26PM (#17308772)
There's a substantial difference between grub password protection, a feature which I've never seen anyone use in practice and the ubiquitous login prompt.

The OP specifically said the login prompt was defeated by backspacing alone.

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Re:Apple to Close iPhone Security Hole That Police Use to Cr... by stevekemp on Thursday June 14, 2018 @06:20AM (#17310594)
Reminds me of the bug in Solaris where you could get root by essentially pressing entering a username and mashing the keyboard a bit:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/muc.lists.bugtraq/5zYU...

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