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Re:CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions by jandrese on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:12PM (#22163832)
The first feature of a rootkit is to get root access. A userspace kernel-information leak utility would be very useful for this step.
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Re:CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions by scandinavian on Monday January 27, 2020 @04:25PM (#22163950)
Okay, we have differing definitions of what a rootkit is it seems.
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Re:CacheOut: Leaking Data on Intel CPUs via Cache Evictions by foota on Monday January 27, 2020 @07:42PM (#22165356)
They mean in the implementation of a rootkit.
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