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> bits flipping in DRAM will not go away unless the economics in DRAM manufacturing change This seems like all the argument necessary to require all computers
by cbozeman 3y ago
> bits flipping in DRAM will not go away unless the economics in DRAM manufacturing change
This seems like all the argument necessary to require all computers - and I do mean all computers - to require ECC memory. The security risk is simply too great, and everything is too integrated not to make this change. Even a "gamer" on a pure gaming computer will have some crucial information on that machine, so I simply do not see how we've gone this far without making this change.
- tdullien 3y agoThe reality is that Rowhammer remains one of the hardest ways to compromise a machine, largely because the software stack most people are running isn't great.
- maxcoder4 3y ago>Even a "gamer" on a pure gaming computer will have some crucial information on that machine Which belongs to the gamer user, so it can be extracted or encrypted by every malware running on that system. No need for esoteric attacks like rowhammer at this point. Unless you think about, for example, exploring user machine via rowhammer in js running in a browser tab, but as far as I know that was never made practical.