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Re:Riot: Source code for League of Legends and TFT were exfi... by weberer on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:22AM (#34515774)
You should be encrypting your secure drive so stuff like this doesn't happen. Also so burglars can't grab your physical disk, put it in their machine, and read all your files. When installing most distros, they give you a checkbox to enable LUKS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Unified_Key_Setup

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Re:Riot: Source code for League of Legends and TFT were exfi... by viraptor on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:34AM (#34515854)
Bitlocker is also the default on most w10 and all w11.
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Re:Riot: Source code for League of Legends and TFT were exfi... by Narishma on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @04:48AM (#34516434)
IIRC it was not available on Windows 10 Home, which I'd guess to be the largest install base. I don't know about Windows 11.
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Re:Riot: Source code for League of Legends and TFT were exfi... by viraptor on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:09AM (#34516560)
Win 10 and 11 Home still allows device encryption (https://www.windowscentral.com/how-enable-device-encryption-...)
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Re:Riot: Source code for League of Legends and TFT were exfi... by Narishma on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @06:35AM (#34517100)
That requires TPM v2 and UEFI. I guess that's why I've never seen it in any of the Windows machines I have access to.
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Re:Riot: Source code for League of Legends and TFT were exfi... by 0cf8612b2e1e on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:26PM (#34523703)
The untrusted OS could ransomware encrypt the already-encrypted trusted one. The attacker is denied access to my SSH keys, but so am I.

Fully willing to confess this feels an outsized threat model, but it is something. Going forward, this separation will allow me to undersize my next linux workstation which requires far more modest hardware if never running games.

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