• kadu@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Oh no! If I disable mitigations some hacker will use very specific exploits to try and extract random data from memory out of my Steam Deck! Oh my! That’s terrible, I store all my credentials on a volatile RAM drive on my Deck all the time!

    • jlsalvador@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Hehe. Or they could send a 0 to your fan velocity. Or flash/lock (setting the flash bit to 0) your BIOS through ACPI calls. Even stolen your Steam token credential. I saw an example that runs commands as a Systemd volatile user service. There are a few POCs on GitHub about recovery passwords from the browser (sand-boxed environment) for generic environments. I think that everyone here is old enough to understand the consequences of our acts.