Where will it end though? At this level of paranoia how would people leave the house?
At some point you need to have a level of trust which is viable for daily life.
At some point you need to have a level of trust which is viable for daily life.
If your device is locked, you need to authenticate to trust to said device.
Power starvation / observation attacks are passive attacks in a sense. They get their results by observing only.
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In these types of attacks, you don't transfer any actual information, but guess something from observation.
There are more exotic attacks [0][1] which exploit the heat computers generate to exfiltrate data or time power starvation attacks.
[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3133956.3133994 [1]: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/stealing-data-computers-using-...