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When’s the last time you personally had a bit flip on you?



You generally cannot know because we don't measure for it? Especially not on personal computers, maybe ECC ram reports this information in some way?

In practice I think it happens often enough, and I remember a blackhat conference talk from around a decade ago where the hacker squatted typoed variants of the domain of a popular facebook game, and caught requests from real end users. Basing his attack on the random chance of bitflips during dns lookups.

Related, but not the video I was referring to

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5446854




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