[LeifCarrotson]

The fundamental operation in hardware engineering is the digital signal, pulling a pin to one or zero - which is all the tweezer attack does. It's comparable to writing a byte of memory. Imagine how hard software security would be if your adversaries could write arbitrary data to your process: there's no ASLR or even an MMU to randomize trace layouts on physical circuit boards.

[kukrimate]

Well yes, but there is a difference between a signal being accessible on a PCB trace I can see with my eyes, vs it being accessible only on the inside of a 7nm silicon die.

There is a reason why a lot of system integrate the security processor on the same piece of silicon whose state the security processor is meant to protect.

The reason discrete TPMs exist is supposed compliance with crypto standards, and physical protection against key extraction, but they sort of miss the forest before the trees. What matters to users is the protection of their data, not the TPM's secrets, and discrete TPMs arent very good at the former.

[hun3]

You could scramble/authenticate the signals though, if you don't mind the huuuuuuuge performance penalty.