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Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips by donkarma on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:30PM (#31696319)
Skimmed this really fast, but is this just bypassing PAC by brute-forcing the code with speculative execution?
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Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips by jprx on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:36PM (#31696399)
Pretty much!

(There are a few aspects that make this challenging in practice, but that's the idea).

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Re:MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips by donkarma on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:20PM (#31705651)
cool, thanks!
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