Did you read what he had to do ?

  Using off-the-shelf chemicals, Tarnovsky soaked chips in acid to  
dissolve their hard outer shells. Then he applied rust remover to help  
take off layers of mesh wiring, to expose the chips' cores. From  
there, he had to find the right communication channels to tap into  
using a very small needle.

The needle allowed him to set up a wiretap and eavesdrop on all the  
programming instructions as they are sent back and forth between the  
chip and the computer's memory.

Those instructions hold the secrets to the computer's encryption, and  
he didn't find them encrypted because he was physically inside the chip.

Even once he had done all that, he said he still had to crack the  
"huge problem" of figuring out how to avoid traps programmed into the  
chip's software as an extra layer of defence.


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