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Nah, we just start opening the phones, cutting off some PBC patches, soldering some wires, and intercepting/synthesizing signals live. Keeping phones locked is just a zero sum game.

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Not to tempt fate here, but this is why eFuses were adopted at the SOC-level.

Yes, and bus encryption. I used to think "if a human made it, a human can break it" but that may no longer be true with disparate access to frontier models.

The path of the hacking skill just changes locations. There will always be a solution to break into systems you physically own.

You can’t encrypt everything in a way where I can’t hack my devices. Sure difficulty and risk will increase once you start hacking in the hardware, but it’s the hardware itself that will be the final vector. This was just the destination we were always headed toward anyways.

When the solution becomes "you need a nanometer precision stepper and an electron beam to modify the SoC's circuitry and dismantle the 'root of trust' that's making your hardware betray you to the corporate interests", you've lost.

We can't rely on hardware staying hackable. We couldn't ever since "secure boot" became a thing.

This is literally the XKCD about the $5 wrench...

Who is taking the $5 wrench to CEOs?

You can't unlock a bootloader with a $5 wrench.

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