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		yuhong on Jan 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meltdown Proof-of-Concept The point is what reading kernel memory would be useful for.

tedunangst on Jan 10, 2018 [–]

One wonders why /dev/mem was ever read restricted to start.

yuhong on Jan 10, 2018 | [–]

Reading /dev/mem is far easier/faster and typically provides more data than this attack would.

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