3 ms·

Leave it to Wired to blow a theoretical attack out of proportion

• itsnotlupus 8y ago
  What did they exaggerate? They mentioned the attack can work with roughly a week worth of unprivileged runtime, as long as the ECC mode of the ram chips in the targeted system has been previously sufficiently reverse engineered. Is that too alarmist? To me, it sounds like something perhaps too cumbersome for casual drive by attacks, but it seems right down the alley of so called "persistent threats", or whatever it is we call those guys nowadays.
  • ngcc_hk 8y ago
    Agree very much especially in cloud and iot. Later you have much less protection already and physical (in some case) easy to get to.
• Mtinie 8y ago
  Every actual system compromise began as a previously “theoretical” attack. _Wired_’s article isn’t overly alarmist given the install-base of devices with ECC. With a possible attack-surface this large I’d rather someone cry-wolf than for those in the tech industry be caught flat footed.