Researchers say they can spy on your browsing by measuring SSD activity through a browser API — claim FROST attack requires no permissions or user interaction to identify which apps and websites you're using
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The technique correctly identified visited websites with roughly 89% accuracy and running applications with roughly 96% accuracy on a test Mac
  • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    So the file has to exceed available RAM to benchmark the SSD performance? How viable is that at all? You’d be downloading gigabytes.

      • Peffse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Ah that makes more sense. Seems like something easy to detect at least.

        It’s been a while but doesn’t Windows let you know when you exceed RAM usage and hit paging file?