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Cosmic bit flip? it happens.
by unknownaccount 4y ago
Cosmic bit flip? it happens.
- hayst4ck 4y agoA really fun DefCon talk on bitsquatting. Bitsquatting is the practice of registering domains that are one bit off from a popular one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WcHsT97suU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WcHsT97suU google.com vs ooogle.com >>> chr(int('0b1100111', 2)) 'g' >>> chr(int('0b1101111', 2)) 'o' If the 4th to last bit of 'g' were to flip before writing to disk, you could get persistent requests to ooogle.com Having done queries against very large datasets at a large company, I can say for certain that this happens much more than you think it might.