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by lawl 1459 days ago
> Though if that’s a legitimate part of your threat model, you’re in a very difficult situation.

Its probably (close to) impossible to establish a trust anchor in that situation. That trust anchor being the untampered image. How do you secure that? Yes you can send it to trusted friends, but at that point that just means they're now fair game too. Its definitely not safe on your phone because 0days now definitely are part of your threat model too.

I think maybe if you make it your full time job, you might have a slim chance. But realistically you'd probably only manage that for a limited time.

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polaroid?
Sleep?

This may sound overly paranoid, but if they can intercept your deliveries they'll be able to snap a picture of your house key and have covert entry.

You'd probably need to barricade yourself in your bed room so that they cant get in without waking you up. Probably move the bed against the door so it can't be opened.

At some point this just degenerates into requiring unreasonable paranoia and opsec. And unless you have a specific goal to achieve, it may just not be worth it.

Plus airgaps against 0days. It's just purely very not fun I would assume.

While many door locks can indeed be bypassed, it's straightforward for an occupant to keep an inward-opening door closed, by using a $25 door reinforcer, e.g. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Prime-Line-Door-Reinforcement-Lo.... Bypassing that will involve time and noise.

Enterprises hire professionals to provide physical and digital security. In time, they will extend those protections to harden the perimeter of their WFH employees, when needed to protect valuable corporate IP and privileged access. This includes tamper-detection on shipments of corporate equipment to WFH employees.