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The researchers said that it’s capable of locating and leaking a Linux computer’s root password hash from physical memory in about 28 minutes when running the Intel CPUs and in about 6 minutes for AMD CPUs.

Presumably under very ideal conditions? I've been indifferent to all these sidechannel attacks since the original Spectre/Meltdown and continue to maintain my opinion that this is really not of any significance to a single-user PC.

parent userbinator 4 years ago

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