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Reminds me of the timebombs in windows 2000. I guess he’s forced to start fresh.

Edit: seems I may be mistaken.

If I’m understanding this correctly this opens up the door to a serious type of rootkit.

It’s not a matter of attackers having access to the data. It’s that they have replaced your hardware with malicious hardware.

Additionally It can be trivial to gain administrative capacity on a personal computer. But in a regular case you can just reinstall the operating system. This would survive that.