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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by monocasa on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @04:49PM (#26799079)
That's almost always explicitly handled for line glitch reasons.
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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by nitrogen on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @06:50PM (#26800475)
Haven't there been mod chips for consoles that worked by glitching the lines at just the right time?
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Re:Israel may have destroyed Iranian centrifuges simply by c... by monocasa on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @07:25PM (#26800883)
The one I know of that glitched lines at the right time (the xbox 360 reset glitch hack modchips) worked by glitching the reset line at the right time via a CPLD that had been attached in such a way as to bypass the analog filtering.

I agree that this scheme doesn't protect against hardware implants modifying lines, but the threat model discussed thus far was around propagation of software implants throughout a system.

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