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Not to split hairs, but there's physical access and there's physical access. I've got a Windows RT device up there in my livingroom, but as much as I can pick it up, heft it at the wall, or poke my pinkie into its USB port, I'm not the kind of dude who can crack it open and steal an encryption key that's being transmitted across a bus on the third layer down of its motherboard. I can, however, log in as administrator, download a CMD script (or whatever), and run it. Which one of those is physical access? I guarantee that if you asked one of those greybeards who told you about physical access, they'd back up to the stealing-a-key-from-a-bus scenario, which is out of bounds of reality for most of us. The exploit at hand is not, and I think that's the difference.

> Again, I'm not a security expert, but do you think I could be forgiven for making such an assertion?

Yeah, I forgive you.