Hello, On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 05:41:57PM -0400, Fungi4All wrote: > Is this [booting a live distribution] all it takes to hack the > root account of a secure debian system?
If an attacker has physical access to your running hardware then you have always lost. In some cases not even encryption will save you from a motivated and resourceful attacker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_boot_attack This has been the same forever, on all Linux distributions, Windows and pretty much any other operating system. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting