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A comment on ARMageddon: Cache Attacks on Mobile Devices. Parent comment

Re:ARMageddon: Cache Attacks on Mobile Devices by zer11782oo on Friday August 12, 2016 @05:36AM (#12274287)
"protected" is really the wrong word. Doesn't need the NSA to read RAM!
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Re:ARMageddon: Cache Attacks on Mobile Devices by alain94040 on Friday August 12, 2016 @12:07PM (#12276719)
You misread the explanation. Data from another process is in the cache, but your process can't access it (due to virtual memory protection). But you can still extract side-band information by measuring the cache latency.
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