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Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce) @sleepyowl@chaos.social

2/24/2026, 2:31:30 PM

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Again, no one assumes that any system can be made 100% bulletproof. But that was never the point is it?

The end game is for manufacturers to harden their devices against cheaper tools and raise the barrier to entry such that it costs a fortune for hackers who might even try. /6

Screenshot of Chipshouter Kit and its price: $4605

Laser fault injection setup with Keysight DS1101A Fault Injection Laser System

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Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce) @sleepyowl@chaos.social

2/24/2026, 2:33:57 PM

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This is why GiovanH's blog article is a must-read.

People assume that accessible hacks of invasive systems will always exist, and users hacking their devices is to be expected.

THIS SHOULDN'T BE A NORM. THIS IS AN ARMS RACE AND WE'RE OUTMATCHED. /7

https://blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10/14/a-hack-is-not-enough/

Snippet from GiovanH's article: A Hack is Not Enough

The Smartbrains are not exempt from society. Once a policy is being enforced on the 80% of people who can’t fight or don’t care, it’s easy to categorize the deviants as cheats and criminals. All of a sudden it will be the case that you can’t adjust, and by then there will be systems to prevent any complaining from changing that fact. Best-case scenario the hackers are the last ones to fold which means by the time it affects them everyone else has already given up.

This is why I’m making the complaint I’m making. This is why it’s so dangerous for the technically enfranchised to be falsely confident. The people who care enough and understand the thing won’t raise as much of a fuss if they are given a way to work around the restriction. But this lack of pushback from experts encourages the shift to happen. The more normalized something is the harder it is to take action against it, and the more discouraged something is the easier it is to ban it and write off people who complain as fussy outliers. You can’t let a workaround be the last bastion standing between you and harm, because it will fall.

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