An attacker with physical access can abruptly restart the device and dump RAM, as analysis of this memory may reveal FVEK keys from recently running Windows instances, compromising data encryption.

The effectiveness of this attack is, however, limited because the data stored in RAM degrades rapidly after the power is cut off.

  • sugar_in_your_tea
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    1 day ago

    Yeah, that’s only going to protect from drive theft, which I guess makes disposal easier?