new hacking attack for android phones 2016 october

Using Rowhammer bitflips to root Android phones is now a thing

Permission-less apps take only seconds to root phones from LG, Samsung and Motorola.-source arstechnica

"The breakthrough has the potential to make millions of Android phones vulnerable, at least until a security fix is available, to a new form of attack that seizes control of core parts of the operating system and neuters key security defenses...

 An app containing the researchers' rooting exploit requires no user permissions and doesn't rely on any vulnerability in Android to work. Instead, their attack exploits a hardware vulnerability, using a Rowhammer exploit that alters crucial bits of data in a way that completely roots name brand Android devices from LG, Motorola, Samsung, OnePlus, and possibly other manufacturers."-source arstechnica

 

New hacking technique makes many major brand android phones vulnerable for now.   Very dangerous stuff, and this is still human hacking.   If a collective of artificial general intelligence systems of similar to human level can be accelerated significantly, run faster than real time, it stands to reason that all digital systems will be compromised in short order.   Human developers won't be able to keep up with a machine that can thoroughly analyze code and generate exploits perhaps within minutes of any software release or update.   Virtual Full Access to all digital systems will allow for unprecedented superiority in cyberspace.

 

But of course that is but one of the applications of mastery of true intelligence, the power of the science of mind design, it can also accelerate all forms of progress.   Mathematical progress specially, as that does not tend to require complex physical simulations that may slow things a bit, though through mathematical and computer science progress simulation rate may be accelerated substantially through the discovery of theoretically optimal exact algorithms and theoretically optimal heuristic algorithms.