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If the encryption was that easy to bypass, was it worth it at all?
There are some reasons you'd want to encrypt even without a secret key. One is it makes it easier to erase data (just erase the key). It also makes bit flip errors a lot more obvious, which is another way of saying harder to ignore, so that can go either way.
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When was the last time your phone stopped working due mechanical PCB damage? Typically the limiting factor on your phone is the screen breaking, your battery life getting too short, wear and tear on components like buttons or the charging port, and factory defects. Epoxy isn't going to help with any of those. The only thing it would help with is exposure to water, but if other parts of your phone like your screen are…
To add to that. My son got his phone caught in a reclining chair without realizing it. The fact that the phone bent in half instead of destroying the chair is a nice bonus. Replacing the phone was cheap, replacing a chair would not have been — yes, both are insured, but replacing/repairing a chair takes a hell of a lot longer.
Phones these days are often more expensive than the chair and can be pretty inconvenient to replace, especially if you have nonrecent backups.
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Citation needed. It might be slightly easier, but most cases where you can get part of the camera, you can get the whole camera. This isn't a little point-and-click with a handy spring-loaded slot either.
Yeah but the Camera's owner is much more likely to notice "my camera is missing" than "the SD card is blank for some reason... the SD card must have failed" EDIT: The linked PDF has a photo, the camera literally opens up to access the SD card.
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Does not leave SubC in a particularly flattering light...
They had no idea how their own product worked. They didn’t even know it used encrypted storage. This was either outsourced or done by some junior engineer who was putting pieces together like it was another Raspberry Pi project that just needed to kind of work.
The NTSB's original report has more detail on how the SD Card was encrypted and how the NTSB managed to decrypt it: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18741602&Fi...
The System on Module board is an Inforce 6601 SOM. [0] It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and they provide prebuilt Ubuntu Linaro distros for it, preconfigured for the board. The camera manufacturer likely just tossed it straight in as configured and thus didn't know how the full disk encryption was setup. This whole camera design looks like one of those 'we gave this project to some undergrad engineering students who…
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Citation needed. It might be slightly easier, but most cases where you can get part of the camera, you can get the whole camera. This isn't a little point-and-click with a handy spring-loaded slot either.
Yeah but the Camera's owner is much more likely to notice "my camera is missing" than "the SD card is blank for some reason... the SD card must have failed" EDIT: The linked PDF has a photo, the camera literally opens up to access the SD card.
The NTSB's original report has more detail on how the SD Card was encrypted and how the NTSB managed to decrypt it: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18741602&Fi...
The System on Module board is an Inforce 6601 SOM. [0] It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and they provide prebuilt Ubuntu Linaro distros for it, preconfigured for the board. The camera manufacturer likely just tossed it straight in as configured and thus didn't know how the full disk encryption was setup. This whole camera design looks like one of those 'we gave this project to some undergrad engineering students who…
The NTSB's original report has more detail on how the SD Card was encrypted and how the NTSB managed to decrypt it: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=18741602&Fi...
The System on Module board is an Inforce 6601 SOM. [0] It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and they provide prebuilt Ubuntu Linaro distros for it, preconfigured for the board. The camera manufacturer likely just tossed it straight in as configured and thus didn't know how the full disk encryption was setup. This whole camera design looks like one of those 'we gave this project to some undergrad engineering students who…
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It's a solid piece of silicon encased in epoxy, so there's nothing really to get crushed. Contrast this to something like a cellphone that's made of hundreds of separate parts and has void space that will get crushed.
Why isn't a cellphone filled with epoxy?
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They had no idea how their own product worked. They didn’t even know it used encrypted storage. This was either outsourced or done by some junior engineer who was putting pieces together like it was another Raspberry Pi project that just needed to kind of work.
The longer I last in this world the more products I realize are the result of telling a few people who don't know what they are doing to "make it kind of work."