If only if legislators could get their shit together and mandate ECC.
It is unnerving most computing is done in fragile non-ecc systems.
A very messed up form of artificial market segmentation.
It is unnerving most computing is done in fragile non-ecc systems.
A very messed up form of artificial market segmentation.
Haven't you seen those congressional hearings with Zuck and others where congresspeople ask about how to use their phone ? How do you expect them to legislate about ECC ?
Something that works absolutely fine 99.9999% of the time is not fragile.
ECC is a really good idea. It’s only expensive right now because it’s a “premium feature”. If it were a standard part of all ram sticks, it’d be cheap and we’d all benefit.
For example, I download software from the internet then hash it. The hash matches. Before the bytes are written to disk locally, a bit flips in RAM. The corrupted data is written to disk and used.
Likewise, dnssec doesn't protect you against DNS bitsquatting attacks[1] because the domain name can be changed before the DNS request is made. So the DNS response your computer makes for a-azon.com might be totally valid and signed. It can come through DoH or whatever. The problem is that your browser thought it was the response for amazon.com and chrome send a bitsquatter your amazon cookies. (Oops).
This was fine when consumer computers were for games and porn. Now they store birth certificates, submit information to the tax man, documents to court, sometimes deal with matters of life and death
Probably silently wrong values happening in memory somewhere. If it's not in something where that value is not actively running code code, you probably won't have a crash.
If it's in (say) Excel calculation formula it'll probably just screw up the calculation. Which may or may not be obvious. Similar thing for 3D cad, it could be completely non-obvious.