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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Isn't a true air gap pretty solid though? Aside from someone actually coming into your house and interfacing directly it would be pretty hard to bypass, or am I on Mt. Dunning-Kruger over here this time?

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

You are correct.

The uncomfortable part is what I've learned about the challenges to gain physical access.

Most physical security is equally appalling to most Cybersecurity.

Edit: Incredibly unfun exercise: pick a physical security device you rely on, personally, and do a YouTube search for "device name break in test". I've rarely been able to find a video more than 3 minutes long, for any product, at all. And the actual breaking is usually mere seconds in the middle bit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The lockpicking lawyer scares me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That guy is an exceptional picker/exploiter, and he isn't even the best.

However, I've casually picked locks and always have a set of picks with me for the past 20 years. LPL makes me look like a 10 year old kid trying to open a lock with a pair of chopsticks.

In other words, probably less than 5% of the population have ever picked a lock. Of them, I'm probably better than 90% and I still suck at it. So running across an LPL level skilled person, who's also a criminal is going to be like a list of names on a single piece of paper. Just buy a lock complicated enough that you can't scrub it open and everyone will be fine.

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