[nibbleshifter]

A good amount of the industry has dedicated research departments these days. At least, the better consultancies have.

As for the bitflips example, are you talking about Rowhammer? That and the CPU side channel issues are the kind of area academia really tends to do great work on.

Where I find academia incredibly disappointing is in areas like covert channels - there's a fucking paper mill in Israel that keeps shitting out implausible "covert channel" research.

Also stuff like memory corruption techniques - academia seems to spend a lot of its time reinventing shit that has been done to death in industry or even has papers in Phrack.