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Schrödinger’s test: The /dev/mem case

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This blog was originally published by Alessandro Carminati, Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat, on his personal blog and is republished here with permission. Why I Went Down This Rabbit Hole Back in 1993, when Linux 0.99.14 was released, /dev/mem made perfect sense. Computers were simpler, physical memory was measured in megabytes, and security basically boiled down to: “Don’t run untrusted programs.” Fast-forward to today. We have gigabytes…
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ELISA broke the news in on Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
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