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by Demiurge 4309 days ago
But there is a whole range of potential issues. Or things compiler developers can do. As any task, they should be sorted, weighted by ease of exploitation and ease of solving. What I suspect, and I'm just curious to see if I am wrong, is that developers postulate vulnerabilities that real hackers would never bother with, and miss what they really go for, such as trivial mistakes, such as forgetting bounds checking.

So, I've seen a lot of (conceptually) trivial exploits and combinations of trivial exploits, but I would love to see a real world example of someone collecting enough information from an 'bad RNG', registers, or timing, to do anything with it.