An attacker with physical access can abruptly restart the device and dump RAM, as analysis of this memory may reveal FVEK keys from recently running Windows instances, compromising data encryption.

The effectiveness of this attack is, however, limited because the data stored in RAM degrades rapidly after the power is cut off.

  • @IHawkMike
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    52 days ago

    Yeah you really need a password or TPM PIN protector to protect from cold boot attacks if that is in your threat model.