M1 chips are largelyconsidered quite secure, despitesome vulnerabilitiesdiscovered in the past.
However,this particular issuestands out because of its inability to be patched out or otherwise updated.
The function essentially adds a special coded signature to various memory functions and requires authentication before running those functions.

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The silver lining in all of this is that a PACMAN attack is extremely reliant on specificity.

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