A Presence-sensing Drive For Securely Storing Secrets

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• mspencer712@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, desoldering a chip and dumping contents makes an attacker “resourceful”? A sub-$50 hot air rework station (or $330-ish if you don’t want one that’ll burn your house down) and a $50 programming cable is … not a lot of resources.

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  • reksas@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    well, isn’t security mostly about setting the “filter” for potential attackers. You can break a padlock with hammer, but it will keep out random people from wandering in. Having to rewire and program stuff to access this would keep many types of away. The kind of attacker who would want to go through all that trouble wouldn’t be kept away even with more secure methods most likely.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bro most people can barely heat up pizza rolls in the oven.

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    • mspencer712@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t tell if I communicated badly or I’m really just off the mark. But we already encrypt storage at rest, when we have valuable or sensitive data, because of the risk that thieves might read stolen data.

      So take that a step farther. A thief can “know a guy” who spent a few hundred on soldering equipment and watched some tutorials on YouTube. We don’t consider sensitive data to be unavailable to thieves just because it isn’t readable via plug and play.

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    • Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But I like how squishy and soft they are from the microwave…

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• satanmat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kinda cool idea;; but the key can’t be rewritten; so if something happens to your phone; it would be bricked.

  So… not really that great??

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  • Dlayknee@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Isn’t that arguably the nature of encryption, though? If you lose the key, you’re SOL by design.

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