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Re:Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges... by jontro on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:38PM (#15032331)
This is the paper https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b9bc/a3c9f531002854af48de12... that this is based on. They claim to be able to extract the key using hdparm. Afaik that needs elevated permissions to run.
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Re:Rowhammer-like attack on SSDs can provide root privileges... by wtallis on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @07:52PM (#15032422)
> They claim to be able to extract the key using hdparm.

No, they claim only to be able to use hdparm to extract the logical block address at which a file is stored. Whether that gives you any useful information is entirely dependent on the internals of the SSD.

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