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Requires physical access. A non-story outside of cybersec academia/research
Bitlocker's threat model is physical access, though. And it's 50% of TPM's threat model too.
Yeah which is why no one cares about either. The threat vector is usually not discussed and mostly ignored by non state-level actors in practice.
I do agree that it's fascinating. My master's degree thesis was on sourcing trust and eliminating various evil maid type attacks, including supply side targeted poisoned hardware aimed at state level.
This is categorically false. Laptops are not a story but rather company property.