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		Franciscouzo on Jan 20, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Corrupt a SQLite Database File Could you? You would also have to take into account that the instruction that make the program could also be randomly flipped

blattimwind on Jan 20, 2020 [–]

In most cases the size of the code is much smaller than the data handled, so for random errors (perfectly working DRAM has a bit error rate somewhere in the general vicinity of 10^-14/bit*hr) the distribution of errors is in accordance to that proportion.

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