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Re:Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transp... by Shikadi on Sunday July 04, 2021 @05:01PM (#27732584)
I still think it made sense up until now to not bother with it on consumer hardware, and even at this point. The probability of your phone having a software glitch needing a reboot is way higher. Now that it's practically a free upgrade? Should be included by default. But I still don't think it's nearly as nefarious as people make it out to be that it has been this way for so long
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Re:Single random bit flip causes error in certificate transp... by DevKoala on Sunday July 04, 2021 @06:17PM (#27733080)
I don’t think they are an issue in a phone, but in a system like a blockchain that goes through so much effort to achieve consistency, the severity of the error is magnified hence the lesser tolerance for the error rate.
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