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Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by lathiat on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:52PM (#18172983)
If you think bit flipping is rare, check out this write-up: http://dinaburg.org/bitsquatting.html

Bitsquatting: DNS Hijacking without exploitation

When bit-errors occur they can change memory content. Computer memory content has semantic meaning. Sometimes, that meaning will be a domain name. And applications utilizing that memory will use the wrong domain name.

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Re:Intel Announces 9th Gen Core CPUs by ianai on Monday October 08, 2018 @11:08PM (#18173035)
Nice point. As with all things that follow a distribution and given the large number of machines this error will occur.
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