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jjgreenlast Thursday at 2:53 PM5 repliesview on HN

I laugh at your spying attempts from my HD-equipped laptop, ...


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progvaltoday at 6:01 AM

The paper (https://hannesweissteiner.com/pdfs/frost.pdf) cites two earlier papers (from 2014 and 2017) that did the same for HDDs.

tostitoday at 12:53 PM

I laugh at your spying attempts from my cURL e-mail service that I use instead of a web browser.

gblarggtoday at 10:38 AM

Or mine where the entire browser profile is on a ramdisk.

limatoday at 10:40 AM

Higher IO latencies in HDs might actually make this attack easier - more contention means more bits of data.

falsaberN1yesterday at 7:19 PM

I got $HOME in a huge HDD because it was cheaper. I guess we belong to the cool kids club now?