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> One aspect of this is that some laptop manufacturers provide a setting to erase the TPM is the laptop is opened. Do you mean like if you remove the screws an
by brunoqc 3y ago
> One aspect of this is that some laptop manufacturers provide a setting to erase the TPM is the laptop is opened.
Do you mean like if you remove the screws and get inside a laptop?
Could they gain access by cutting the plastic instead (maybe Matrix parasite extraction style).
- Ian678 3y agoCould also use a light sensor or check if a circuit that runs on the inside of the case is broken.
- michaelmior 3y agoStill seems not to difficult to bypass (if you know it's there).
- redox99 3y agoChassis intrusion is almost always just a small switch pushing against the side panel of the case. And yes there's a million ways you could bypass that.
- sublinear 3y agoWhich sounds potentially unreliable on a laptop. Seems like a hard knock or even just normal material fatigue might be enough to release the switch.
- hutzlibu 3y agoOne laptop of mine has such a sensor, but not for bitlocker. After I opened it, it would just refuse to turn on, probably a safeguard when repairing and not wanting it to run anything. But I did not know and thought I broke it, but after closing it again and tightening one screw in the middle, it worked and so I found that sensor. It is a very simple, but reliable push button and before it breaks, the screen will be broken long before that.