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From a security standpoint, isn’t there a common understanding that if an attacker gains physical access to your computer, you already lost? As a side note, th

• lazyjones 8y ago
  > isn’t there a common understanding that if an attacker gains physical access to your computer, you already lost? I don‘t think so. It would mean that securing information in the workplace is nearly impossible and colocation hosting security intrusion boils down to picking a physical lock (of your rack).
• jarfil 8y ago
  Some parts of a computer are easier to access than others. Like, it's quite easy to access the contents of a hard drive, but not so much some value stored in a particular register in the CPU. That's why it makes sense to encrypt data stored on a hard drive, but we expect the CPU to be able to handle plaintext securely. Turns out, we should think of RAM more like a hard drive than like something internal to the CPU.