Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Do you live at a very high altitude with a significant amount of solar radiation, or at an underfunded radiology lab or perhaps near a uranium deposit or a melted down nuclear reactor? Because the average machine should never see a memory bit flip error at all during its entire lifetime.


Then how do you explain all the bugs in the software I write?!


It truly is a cosmic mystery :)


Bit flipping can be the byproduct of bow the system components harmonize. Role hammer RAM also has the same affect. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer


> Furthermore, research shows that precisely targeted three-bit Rowhammer flips prevents ECC memory from noticing the modifications.

Doesn't exactly sound like a use case for ECC memory, given that it can't correct these attacks. Interesting though, I'd have thought that virtual addresses would've largely fixed this.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: