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If the attacker can run code on your hardware, they probably don't stand to gain anything from (from the standpoint of compromising data integrity) by degrading
by fabulist 11y ago
If the attacker can run code on your hardware, they probably don't stand to gain anything from (from the standpoint of compromising data integrity) by degrading your hardware to introduce bit flips. It would be simpler to present you data corrupted in the fashion they'd like.
- weinzierl 11y agoI think it's not that clear cut. "run code on your hardware" what does that mean? Running code as root? Certainly. Regular user? Certainly. In some form of sandbox? Hmm. I you accept that running Javascript in a Browser or PDF-Reader is "running code on your hardware" then thousands of people have run code on my hardware. It doesn't usually matter because the sandbox protects me from obvious attacks like accessing the file system. The sandbox won't do nothing to prevent certain instruction patterns or memory access patterns. I don't know if that's really feasible but I see the possibility.
- Rotten194 11y agoPeople said this about Rowhammer too.