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		AnonHP 22 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone becau... I didn’t understand how a user that cannot unlock FileVault helps. Can you please elaborate on this setup? Thanks.

fpoling 22 days ago [–]

With that setup on boot or after a long sleep one first must log in into an account with longer password. Then one logs out of that and switches to the primary account with a short password.

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