[Cryptography] [FORGED] Re: Hope Apple Fights This!

[Peter Gutmann]

Thierry Moreau <thierry.moreau at connotech.com> writes:

>These types of attack are not preserving the smart card in its full integrity
>(destructive attacks).

It depends on what you mean by "destructive", they need to gain physical
access to the circuitry, and possibly cut a trace to the crystal used for
clocking, but that's about it.  The inject-backdoored-firmware approach the
FBI have requested is far more destructive.

Peter.