[_Algernon_]

>How?

A couple of guys with 5$ wrenches can be pretty effective at extracting cryptographic secrets.

[inglor_cz]

Not on scale, though. Plus, this leaves some quite visible traces and leads to backlash.

That is like saying that Guantanamo can defeat religious terrorism. In individual cases, yes, on the whole, absolutely not.

[wobfan]

I mean yeah, why break crypto when you can break kneecaps?