• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    16 hours ago

    To make a stick of RAM spyware, would cost $100k/stick or more,

    how the fuck did you pull that number out of your ass?

    the smallest, simplest embedded CPUs built onto the stick and wired in could do a lot. even if they can’t handle the operating memory frequency, they could access contents through another channel, and also the memory bus.

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      16 hours ago

      Make it look like a dram module, make the other 7 dram modules look like ones that are 7/8ths the standard size, and make the set of 8 pins work with 7 actual dram modules while still performing like a cheap standard module. so people buy it. There are no microsopic CPUs or with no pin traces leading to them.