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When I saw this title, I believed that perhaps they have found a method to detect a Rowhammer attack, which could be used to initiate countermeasures.

Unfortunately no, they have found how to use a Rowhammer attack to obtain a fingerprint of the computer on which it is executed, which can be used to uniquely identify any computer, even among many computers with identical hardware and identical installed software.



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