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Memory Integrity Enforcement

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461 points circuit | 1 comments | 09 Sep 25 18:25 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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superkuh ◴[09 Sep 25 20:26 UTC] No.45188404[source]▶
This is the opposite of fun computing. This is commercial computing who's only use case it making sure that people can send/receive money through their computers securely. I love being able to peek/poke inside and look at my processes ram, or patch the memory of an executable. All this sounds pretty impossible on Apple's locked down systems.

They're not so much general purpose computers anymore as they are locked down bank terminals.

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1. astrange ◴[09 Sep 25 20:49 UTC] No.45188820[source]▶
If you like using debuggers, don't worry, MTE gives you a lot more chances to use them since it finds a lot more crashes. It doesn't stop you writing to memory though, as long as it's the correct type.

PAC may stop you from changing values - or at least you'd have to run code in the process to change them.