hardware

If you ever wondered how computer hardware can be hacked, this blog is for you!

FlyLogic Engineering is a gang of hardware geeks (in the most positive sense of the word), that devotes themselves and their blog to hacking (security) hardware. Not only do they hack USB-tokens in to smithereens, they tell you how they do it, and why.

Most importantly, they show you in practice how secure some hardware is (or not, actually). Why is this important? Well, the human mind seems to find it easier to trust physical devices than logical ones. That means that you and your users will automatically trust a USB-smart card or any other hardware device easier than if you are given a software to do the exact same thing.

But as FlyLogic shows so clearly, hardware is not necessarily more secure - and even tamper proof hardware is not especially unavailable to the experts.

Since FlyLogic has this as a living, we can only assume that others do too.

So make sure you evaluate the risk of using hardware tokens for your security, and that you do your homework before selecting a vendor.