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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by wyager on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:11AM (#7422384)
I feel like that has a very limited scope of usefulness. Datacenter machines are on 99.9% of the time, and generally speaking, thieves don't go through the trouble of stealing hard drives from datacenters.
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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by rainforest on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:30AM (#7422503)
In this case the wallet was stolen from the machine after it was rebooted into single user mode. With FDE the machine wouldn't have been usable when it was rebooted so the attack wouldn't have worked.
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Re:Ottawa Bitcoin exchange defrauded of $100,000 in cyber cu... by viraptor on Tuesday March 18, 2014 @11:31AM (#7422508)
Did you read the article? The server was rebooted into rescue mode and data has been read directly off the disk. You don't need to steal the drive to execute that.
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