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by znpy 2230 days ago
First things first: lol.

After that: at this point it's easier to pay a random person to follow you and steal your whole bag/backpack and wallet and make it look like the usual theft.

Or just break into your house/office or whatever.

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You lol but a similar scheme was used for nuclear weapons treaty compliance verification (search for 'epoxy'):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/03/21/a...

The point is that even having physical possession of the system shouldn't be enough to get anything useful out of it.
Our phones are just small computers, and the notion that the FBI can get things out of them given permanent custody is national news. It's weird that people think this isn't really one of the battle lines in computer security.