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Oh snap, this was news to MSFT? How did they not register bitflips of windows.com and microsoft.com? I think I checked this like 10 years ago, and Google had.
by knorker 6y ago
Oh snap, this was news to MSFT? How did they not register bitflips of windows.com and microsoft.com?
I think I checked this like 10 years ago, and Google had. (well, except the infinite set of subdomains where a dot and an n are one bit away)
And this is why ECC RAM should obviously be the default.
- mschuster91 6y ago> And this is why ECC RAM should obviously be the default. For routers and other hardware along the line this would (probably) be too latency-sensitive.
- Filligree 6y agoECC RAM is no slower than regular RAM. At least, it doesn't have to be. The overlap between overclocked, XMP'd memory and ECC is a null set, but that's not due to physics.
- jdsully 6y agoIt partially is, the biggest issue with parallel busses like that of DRAM is skew between the bit lanes. You need the electrical pulses to physically arrive at the same time. It's more difficult to layout 71 bits of exactly equal length than 64.
- hanniabu 6y agoSince you have experience, maybe there's something you can help explain with what was mentioned: > In fact, out of the 32 valid domain names that are 1-bitflip away from windows.com "windows" is 7 characters long so how is there 32 1-bitflip combinations? Also one of the ones mentioned was "windo7s", but "w" is 01111000 and "7" is 0000111, which isn't a single bit flip away unless I'm doing something wrong.
- jobigoud 6y agoIf we use ASCII 7-bit char codes, 'w' is 0111 0111, and '7' is 0011 0111. 7 characters of 7 bits each gives a grand total of 49 flippable positions.
- detaro 6y agoand not all of the flip results are valid in domains, reducing the set. E.g. if 0111 0111 gets flipped to 0111 1111, that's not a valid character.