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probing silicon is just hard and expensive, not impossible! - though those might be similar enough for most purposes

Machines cost tens of millions or more, renting time on them at least hundreds of thousands.

I thought FIBs usually cost under $500k?

If this is what it takes to hack the TPM, the market for these machines will get bigger. That causes the price to drop.

People will find a way. In the end, if a target gets big enough, someone will do it.