Microsoft's Bitlocker & TPM encryption combo defeated with a $10 Raspberry Pi and a bit of braininess
www.pcgamer.com
Your laptop probably isn't as secure as you thought.

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
      201·
      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
        11·
        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.