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They are not pushing the boundary of human knowledge - they are playing game (reverse engineering) with other human.. maybe that is me having a very narrow definition of "research"
Hi everyone, Joseph (paper author) here. You can find Fractal on Github: https://github.com/jprx/fractal The full paper, slides from my S&P talk, and all our experiment data can be found at the Fractal project website here: https://fractal-os.com We've been building Fractal internally for a very long time (first commit was almost exactly 2 years ago), so it's exciting to finally share it with the world. Let me know w…
To give an analogy, it almost feels like removing the protection circuitry from a Li-Ion battery and then testing if it can catch fire, and observing that it does. Should it really worry users?
Great to see.
I am very confused by calling this kind of work "researches". They are not pushing the boundary of human knowledge - they are playing game (reverse engineering) with other human.. maybe that is me having a very narrow definition of "research"
Author: do you see issues with that use case?
I am very confused by calling this kind of work "researches". They are not pushing the boundary of human knowledge - they are playing game (reverse engineering) with other human.. maybe that is me having a very narrow definition of "research"
I am very confused by calling this kind of work "researches". They are not pushing the boundary of human knowledge - they are playing game (reverse engineering) with other human.. maybe that is me having a very narrow definition of "research"
Feel free to suggest a more suitable word. Research is usually defined against the the body of knowledge of the entity performing it and not all of humanity that ever lived.
I am very confused by calling this kind of work "researches". They are not pushing the boundary of human knowledge - they are playing game (reverse engineering) with other human.. maybe that is me having a very narrow definition of "research"
I am very confused by calling this kind of work "researches". They are not pushing the boundary of human knowledge - they are playing game (reverse engineering) with other human.. maybe that is me having a very narrow definition of "research"
Hi everyone, Joseph (paper author) here. You can find Fractal on Github: https://github.com/jprx/fractal The full paper, slides from my S&P talk, and all our experiment data can be found at the Fractal project website here: https://fractal-os.com We've been building Fractal internally for a very long time (first commit was almost exactly 2 years ago), so it's exciting to finally share it with the world. Let me know w…
At the risk of sounding extremely dumb, I have a question for you: if the hardware is susceptible to something that you can't actually reproduce with the software everyone runs on it, who should care, and why? Is it even really fair to call it a vulnerability at that point? Is the idea that this is supposed to help identify a different mechanism of exploiting the vulnerabilities with the shipped OS too? To give an an…
A mistake is a mistake, whether you have a way to reproduce it right now or not. It's pretty much a given that whatever means you have right now to reproduce the problem will evolve and broaden the scope. Also, if you haven't found a way to reproduce the problem, it doesn't mean it doesn't exist: it takes a lot more effort to prove that it's impossible to reproduce than to simply not being able to reproduce the problem.