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Re:Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure mo... by ComodoHacker on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:00AM (#12054129)
>The display and user buttons protect against an attack launched from the host machine. Before the unit performs a cryptographic operation it can display information about what it is about to do on the display and wait for the user to confirm the operation by pushing one of the user input buttons on the unit.

As the author is here, I'd suggest adding a beeper as a way to alert about potentially unsolicited access to the module.

Re:Show HN: The SC4-HSM, a fully open USB hardware secure mo... by lisper on Friday July 08, 2016 @04:16AM (#12054188)
There is a tri-color LED that is intended to be used for that purpose. Red means something bad has happened :-)