Buchanan walks through his process of experimenting with low-cost fault-injection attacks as an alternative when typical software bugs aren’t available to exploit.

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    18 days ago

    That is impressive. However, if you have physical access to the RAM, you can probably also just pop in a live USB, chroot into the system and do whatever you want. Regardless, this injection was interesting and impressive. Hats off to a clever hacker like that.

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      18 days ago

      Yeah, it’s wild to me that desktop operating systems don’t encrypt storage by default. Both iOS and Android do.

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        17 days ago

        Windows 11’s behavior has changed so Bitlocker is generally enabled at install/upgrade provided you use a Microsoft account vs local account. Source