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
Its definitely sort or misleading but MS needs to really have its feet held to the fire when it comes to these things. It sort of pushes the narrative in the correct direction which is towards privacy AND security, not a half-ass balance where one or the other or both is compromised or is an illusion altogether
The Outlook stuff has demonstrated how fundamentally irresponsible and unserious they are about their obligation to secure and regulate their own systems, they need all the bad press they can get so they are compelled to do betwr
I get your joke, but it's even cheaper than a "Raspberry Pi". Pi Pico, one RP2040 chip, that's basically RPi's new version of a Teensy. I just installed one in my GameCube to defeat its "BIOS" and boot from micro SD card :P
There probably will someday be a push to prevent common normal people from having access to computer systems that offer the user root or superuser access. "ThE aVeRaGe PeRsOn DoEsNt NeEd AdMiN pErMiSsIoNs" or "think of the children". Ipads and surface pros will be allowed but something like a socket 1155 motherboard won't.
We're gonna have problems getting enough software engineers in the future. How is anyone supposed to learn when everything is locked away. It's already happening in the repair industry and the trades.
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.