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Originally Posted by David Munch
It requires physical access to the unit, so I think most of us are quite safe.
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No it does not.
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Is it game over for M1-based MacBook owners, though? There are reports that physical access to a machine is needed, though CSAIL affiliate and the paper's co-author Joseph Ravichandran tells HotHardware that those reports are erroneous.
We actually did all our experiments over the network on a machine in another room. PACMAN works just fine remotely if you have unprivileged code execution," the researchers explain an FAQ.
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https://hothardware.com/news/apple-m...-style-attacks
Itself cannot be patched but it requires memory corruption bugs that can be patched. All of this is beyond my level of understanding.