He talks about “massive amounts of extremely valuable key material“ needed to be stored for billions of devices.
It’s not like this would be Fort Knox. All that data could be stored on a couple of USB sticks which, really, makes it even scarier. Someone could hold the entire contents in the palm of their hand walk away with everything.
If ever a single attacker gains access to that vault and is able to extract, at most, a few gigabytes of data (around the size of an iTunes movie), then the attackers will gain unencrypted access to every device in the world. Even better: if the attackers can do this surreptitiously, you’ll never know they did it.
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He talks about “massive amounts of extremely valuable key material“ needed to be stored for billions of devices.
It’s not like this would be Fort Knox. All that data could be stored on a couple of USB sticks which, really, makes it even scarier. Someone could hold the entire contents in the palm of their hand walk away with everything.
The article makes exactly that point: