Can You Really Trust Hardware? Exploring Security Problems In Hardware Devices

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Presented at Blackhat USA 2005 by

Joe Grand

Most users treat a hardware solution as an inherently trusted black box. "If it's hardware, it must be secure," they say. This presentation explores a number of classic security problems with hardware products, including access to stored data, privilege escalation, spoofing, and man-in-the-middle attacks. We explore technologies commonly used in the network and computer security industries including access control, authentication tokens, and network appliances. You'll leave this presentation knowing the consequence of blindly trusting hardware.