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Using Memory Errors to Attack a Virtual Machine

Posted by michael on from the no-one-is-safe dept.

gillus writes "A very cool scientific paper from Appel and Govindavajhala that explains how virtual machines like java or .Net can be exploited. How? Quite simple, bomb your DRAM chip with X-rays... or more simply with 50-watt spotlight, as the authors demonstrate. Definitively worth a read!"

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  1. Re:This just in! by Com2Kid · · Score: 3, Redundant

    If I can drag in a machine capable of producing sufficient x-rays to within range of the computer.

    Well fuck it, I can just get a screw driver and OPEN the mofo.

    It has ALREADY been proven that no matter how hard something is protected / encrypted / etc, given enough time (and resources!) it will ALWAYS be possible to break though whatever protection measures are in the way. The ONLY 100% secure computing environment is a

    Well heck, actualy there ISN'T one, because even a keyboard going into a big grey locked steel box can have its wires taped so when an authorized user DOES use it the applicable passwords can be captured.

    Basicaly we are all fucked. The good news is that the orgy WILL be broadcast on the playboy channel for only 39.95.

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  2. *.ppt by hswerdfe · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Ahhh....... Power Point How I Hate it.....

    Open office did a decent job on it though

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