Archived This Computer Attack Is Amazing, Frightening, and Unlike Anything Else. Its Called Rowhammer. (slate.com)
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Archived This Computer Attack Is Amazing, Frightening, and Unlike Anything Else. Its Called Rowhammer. (slate.com)
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[–] chakan2 [S] 0 points 15 points 15 points (+15|-0) ago
The language used isn't the interesting bit here...it's a physical exploit. That is bad ass...they're using the frequency of data writes to one sector to manipulate other unrelated sectors.
Think of it as running a magnet across the chip to wipe the bits...now...instead of a magnet I just start writing to one chip super fast to create that same field and manipulate stuff around it.
It's an awesome hack.