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		woodall on Dec 26, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A hacker’s marginal security helps return stolen c... The article in question is about a stolen desktop that booted into single user mode.

wwortiz on Dec 26, 2010 [–]

It's not actually single user mode but autologin, that is why the stolen computer user was still using the same browser and keychain as he didn't have access to admin rights.

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