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0 pointsmonocasa9y ago0 comments

I mean, there's chips that have that in their top metal layers, and there's still crazy people out there with electron microscopes and tiny pins that subvert them.

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I wouldn't be surprised if increased physical security on ATMS isn't worth the practical difference in losses.

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mjevans9y ago

Sure, someone COULD do that, but how long and how fiddly is that process? How big of a risk is there to disrupting internal components.

What if you sandwich the sensitive layer as a thin mesh encased in weak resin between two metal plates?

The point of security isn't absolute, but to ruin the risk + effort vs reward balance.

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