Comment by mschuster91
15 days ago
> You mean the attacker having a physical access to the device plugging in some USB or UART
... which describes US border controls or police in general. Once "law enforcement" becomes part of one's threat model, a lot of trade-offs suddenly have the entire balance changed.
Example of evil maid attack. On laptops prevented automatically by secure boot or manually by encryption and checking fingerprints, not by bricking whole device.