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What a thoroughly disingenuous argument they make. Let me rephrase that in terms of adventures trying to break in to the castle throne room. They say that if y
by exmadscientist 3y ago
What a thoroughly disingenuous argument they make.
Let me rephrase that in terms of adventures trying to break in to the castle throne room. They say that if you keep sending a million adventuring parties, eventually some will break in, perhaps as many as 25 adventurers at once and there's no way you can afford 25 guards 24/7 to protect anything.
The obvious counter-argument is that, sure, maybe the millionth party will get in... but someone had to notice the guards stopping the first 999,999 failures, right? That counts for something?
Most "defeats" of ECC in these RowHammer style attacks are of this form, and are not in my opinion actually defeats. Authors are just sleazily handwaving away the ECC to get a sexier paper.
(ECC with OS error reporting is like having posted guards with someone supervising. If this analogy makes you wonder how things can possibly work without any ECC/guards, congratulations, you see the argument the ECC-everywhere camp are making!)