Re:A Message to Our Customers
by jaggederest on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @03:24PM
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The packages on those chips are usually designed to be melded to the underlying structures enough that opening them destroys the keys they're attempting to hide.
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I think you're missing my point here.
Some people trot the argument that it's OK for the government to compel apple to deliver the backdoored firmware because the measures it would circumvent are not of cryptographic/information-theoretical nature.
Then one could expand that argument by saying that compelling physical reverse-engineering is also OK because the devices are not built to be physically impossible (read: laws of nature) to pry open.
The devices ARE built to be physically impossible to open without destroying their contents.