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Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi (www.pcgamer.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Requires physical access. A non-story outside of cybersec academia/research

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

[–] Netrunner 2 points 9 months ago

This is categorically false. Laptops are not a story but rather company property.