Michael Fothergill <michael.fotherg...@googlemail.com> writes: > Dear Folks, > > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > > E.g. > > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > Is there any substance to this?
Yes, for the microscopic proportion of people who put a password on their bootloader in the first place, and for whom it is possible for someone to to access their console to defeat it but not possible for them to simply take the disk out and steal it.
