When we hear about flash drives in the context of cybersecurity, we tend to think of them more as threats than as targets. When you’re using flash drives to store encryption keys, however, it makes…
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.
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.
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.
Bro most people can barely heat up pizza rolls in the oven.
But I like how squishy and soft they are from the microwave…
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.