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Hackers are often stopped from stealing passwords directly from processors by clouds of etherial locks (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Using the micro fine point of this tool, only nanometers across at the tip, this hacker can actually enter in the bits of your encryption key directly into the CPU cache. Or, reprogram the upcoming instructions in real time. Please, check your kids Halloween candy.