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Excellent point.

Hardware error is almost certain in this case. c.f. rowhammer or bitsquatting.



I think it would be pretty unlikely to trigger rowhammer accidentally. The incidence of random (memory) errors is very low. Something like once every 1.5 years...

This study from Google is pretty interesting:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf


I compared to rowhammer and bitsquatting.

From the paper that you cited:

Our first observation is that memory errors are not rare events. About a third of all machines in the fleet experience at least one memory error per year (see column CE Incid. %) and the average number of correctable errors per year is over 22,000. These numbers vary across platforms, with some platforms (e.g. Platform A and B) seeing nearly 50% of their machines affected by correctable errors, while in others only 12–27% are affected. The median number of errors per year for those machines that experience at least one error ranges from 25 to 611.




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