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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] mm: protect suid binaries against rowhammer with
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On 03/18/2015 12:41 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On 18.03.2015 12:57, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>>
>> I don't think it worth it. The only right way to fix the problem is ECC
>> memory.
>>
> 
> ECC seems good protection until somebody figure out how to break it too.

I doubt that kind of attitude can get us very far. If we can't trust the
hardware, we lose sooner or later.