Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi and a bit of braininess
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Microsoft’s Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi::The point of Microsoft’s Bitlocker security feature is to protect personal data stored locally on devices and particularly when those devices are lost or otherwise physically compromised. With Bi

    • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Bitlocker’s threat model is physical access, though. And it’s 50% of TPM’s threat model too.

      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        Yeah which is why no one cares about either. The threat vector is usually not discussed and mostly ignored by non state-level actors in practice.

        I do agree that it’s fascinating. My master’s degree thesis was on sourcing trust and eliminating various evil maid type attacks, including supply side targeted poisoned hardware aimed at state level.