People don't realize how frequent it could be because most of the time you don't see any of the consequences. Here's a "funny" consequence of bit flips: bit sq

People don't realize how frequent it could be because most of the time you don't see any of the consequences. Here's a "funny" consequence of bit flips: bit squatting. It's about exploiting a bit flip before a DNS query: you register the proper DNS domain and you wait for machines to wrongly contact you because they got the name wrong. http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html http://dinaburg.org/data/DC19_Dinaburg_Presentation.pdf http://dinaburg.org/data/DC19_Dinaburg_Presentation.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8s1JwtNas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ8s1JwtNas Just saw this was already posted below...