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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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[–] spiffpitt@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

security isn't real, just increasing deterrence for attackers.

if you can access something, they can access it, it's just a matter of effort needed to get there.