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by londons_explore 777 days ago
If your attack vector is bad guys with physical access to the circuit board, disabling JTAG will only be a minor speedbump to them.

The vast majority of microcontrollers aren't hardened against physical attack - especially not anything with wifi capability.

"disable jtag" is intended to make it harder to make modchips (ie. bypass the coffee subscription), but doesn't help against someone willing to do a one-off glitching attack or similar to dump secrets.