Timeline for How is 'Removing RAM' a security risk?
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| May 26, 2016 at 14:18 | comment | added | user82913 | Gosh, if I wanted to kill a system that I had physical access to, I would pull the CPU. And leave a glove. | |
| May 23, 2016 at 12:52 | comment | added | LegendaryDude | @BenMillwood I didn't say the system would be running, you inferred that (from what, I don't know). Pulling RAM from a running system is obviously going to impact it in a much more noticeable way than removing it while it's shut down. | |
| May 22, 2016 at 10:36 | comment | added | Ben Millwood | Really? You think it's possible to remove RAM from a running device and have it be a subtle effect? Seems at least reasonably likely the kernel will immediately choke and bring the system down. Surely there are easier ways to DoS a box you have physical access to... | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:33 | comment | added | LegendaryDude | @RahulBasu Like I said, the bullet point itself could be expanded to any physical attack on the hardware itself. Losing power to the machine is much more obvious than removing some RAM, though. | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:31 | comment | added | undo | Why not just unplug the machine? :P | |
| May 19, 2016 at 16:31 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 19, 2016 at 16:29 | history | answered | LegendaryDude | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
