Unhackable: New chip stops attacks before they start
I was expecting something with a little more substance from an .edu domain. This didn&#x27;t really give much detail. Randomly storing data in memory is not a new idea, this has been done for many years on game consoles to prevent people reverse engineering raw memory&#x2F;disc dumps.<p>The &quot;Unhackable&quot; title is obvious clickbait and very easily proven wrong. Lets say you run nginx on this chip. You accidentally configure nginx so it is serving your config file on a route. The someone finds this out and breaks in by requesting that resource and then logs in to your server. No amount of memory shuffling will do anything about this unless nginx is totally broken every 50 milliseconds and in that case you may as well run your program on a rock from your back yard.<p>The only possible thing I see this fixing is when you have direct access to the memory at some kind of hardware level like if you have probes on the memory chip which can read and write but you don&#x27;t have any way of accessing the memory mapping that allows programs to actually work on the chip.