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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:First Penis. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    stfu asshole.

  2. Michael to Taco: "Where's the beef?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rob Nambla's dick is so small...[fill in the blank]

  3. Re:This just in! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    wow.

    you're typing skills are amazing for being drunk to the point of not being able to read.... ;oP

    but yea, someone post the article, so they can get +5 informative.

    ah..instant karma through cut and paste.

  4. Why you should care by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It requires physical access. Ho hum. Quick, apply derision, maximum force!

    Well, Palladium and "Trusted Computing" control boxes that you have physical access to.

    That sound is the light bulb clicking on over your head.

    Fucking insecure closeminded slashdot wannabees...

  5. Re:This just in! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    the only people who bitch about karma whoring are those too unclever, unfunny, or uninsightful to get 50 karma "naturally"