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by sneak 2329 days ago
I think people in practice buy these and use them thinking that they are secure against physical theft because of “encryption” and requiring a pin.

This shows that assumption to be totally false.

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The attack doesn't work if you are using a passphrase. I'm not sure why they let people use a PIN in the first place, but you should never be using PIN instead of a passphrase.