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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by cfeeley on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:07PM (#16067097)
One of the meltdown paper writers evidently has a sense of humor since "hunter2" [0] is one of the passwords they use in their demonstration [1]

[0] http://bash.org/?244321

[1] https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf (page 13, figure 6)

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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by f2f on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:51PM (#16067617)
hunter2 is the industry's accepted PoC password.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by pit2 on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:01AM (#16069137)
wasn't it dolphin?
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by swarnie_ on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:58AM (#16069675)
A previous client used this, i always wondered.
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