[carmaa]

Over time, yes. Your statement about physical access == compromise is missing that crucial detail. There's no reason why someone should be able to access all your data just because they have physical access to your device for a short period.

If you really want to do the analogy thing, the DMA vulnerability would be the equivalent of a safe with a door where no key is needed in the back. It would not be a very good safe.

Just sayin'.

[stcredzero]

> the DMA vulnerability would be the equivalent of a safe with a door where no key is needed in the back.

More like a safe where the "master key" was leaked and wasn't disabled in the models that were sold.

[carmaa]

I don't think the specifics of the analogy is under discussion here, but rather that it's stupid and counter-productive to dismiss an obvious vulnerability because protecting against it is hard.

Welcome to the world of security, I guess.