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Yeah, no duh. This isn't a critical security flaw unless you have the worst partition scheme on your encrypted volumes imaginable. It's not even a process flaw at that point, just "possible".
This is essentially what the Israeli government did to Android a decade ago with Pegasus: if you can get in front of the bootloader, you can compromise disks once encrypted because everything is happening in an in-memory boot process.
Same way you can hotwire cars. It's not new.
Physical access = electronic waste
Thats how it has always been and always will be. If a threat actor had free access to your device for even just a couple seconds, its compromised rare earth trash.
Nope
Exactly.
Silicon is not a rare earth element.
Neither is Aluminium nor plastic nor Lithium (it's getting rarer alright, but doesn't fall into the category).
The amount of rare earth elements is really small in these devices.