Why call it full-disk encryption when the EFI partition has to be unencrypted? (programming.dev)

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Sounds like a misnomer to me.

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[-] dgdft@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Absolutely not — the skill level needed to tamper with a bashrc, pull credentials + keys, or generally hunt for sensitive info on an unencrypted disk is worlds apart from the skill level needed to modify an EFI binary.

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