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by cogman10 1341 days ago
> Are ferroelectric diodes more sensitive to external tampering than a “typical” memory circuit?

Possibly? But the solution would be to put a Faraday cage around the memory. Something that effectively already happens when you have a heat sink on your memory. But further, you also have steal case surrounding your memory that helps there.

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Although high permeability materials can route field lines around things to a certain extent, you can't get the kind of total magnetic shielding you'd want to say, protect a floppy disk from a strong magnet, without superconductors.
Why is this?
Conductors shield against electric fields and also catch EM radiation because it involves both E and M fields, but magnetic shielding relies on something analogous to electric polarization and consequently is more difficult.
A metal case is not an obstruction for a static magnetic field.