[bardworx]

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, there are so many vulnerabilities constantly coming out that I’ve almost became desensitized. I’m sure that’s not a good thing but it’s almost like “when” not “if” someone will just steal my data.

Not sure if anyone agrees or I’m just a one-off...

[jarfil]

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.

[lazyjones]

> 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).