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Memory safety is orthogonal to side-channels, and hardware-enforced isolation (e.g. IOMMU) is more powerful than compiler-enforced isolation (but both are good!
by Retr0id 5mo ago
Memory safety is orthogonal to side-channels, and hardware-enforced isolation (e.g. IOMMU) is more powerful than compiler-enforced isolation (but both are good!)
- bobmcnamara 5mo agoOh no now I have to worry about shaders row hammering my OS ram /s
- Retr0id 5mo agoYou really do have to worry about that!
- RiverCrochet 5mo agoIsn't this how the Xbox 360 got hacked? Not necessarily rowhammer but other methods.. IIRC some shader code in King Kong was able to affect CPU execution or something like that.