Context: While hardware may be a source of insecurity, such as with microchip vulnerabilities maliciously introduced during the manufacturing process, hardware-based or assisted computer security also offers an alternative to software-only computer security. Using devices and methods such as dongles, trusted platform modules, intrusion-aware cases, drive locks, disabling USB ports, and mobile-enabled access may be considered more secure due to the physical access (or sophisticated backdoor access) required in order to be compromised. Each of these is covered in more detail below.

Question: Microchips vulnerabilities are introduced when?
Answer: during the manufacturing process

Question: What offers an alternative to soft-ware only computer security?
Answer: hardware-based or assisted computer security

Question: What can hardware be a source of?
Answer: insecurity

Question: What is required in order for hardware to be compromised?
Answer: physical access (or sophisticated backdoor access)

Question: What step can increase computer security?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is used in physical access of a computer?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What causes hardware to be insecure?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How can a cell phone increase computer security?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What physical device is used as a passkey for your computer?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: When are microchip vulnerabilities removed?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Dongles less secure because of what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is an example of software-only computer security?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is required to compromise a software-only computer?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What type of vulnerability is hardware-based computer security impervious to?
Answer: Unanswerable