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jkhdigitaltoday at 1:48 PM0 repliesview on HN

Covert channels are a thing. Shared access to resources always opens the possibility of covert information passing through e.g. modulation of resource usage. This isn’t even out-of-band, it’s just a hard fact that a shared resource always creates a potential covert channel (source: Lampson 1972, A Note on the Confinement Problem).