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This is a great case for developers using Electron. Nobody is every going to get anything meaningful from those apps at 219b/s -- there's far too much memory to read!

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Good point. I'm going to start allocating tens of megabytes of random data all over my address space at the beginning of execution so that I too can gain this advantage :)

My leg, hand it back, sir. ;-)

You joke, but allocating and writing random data all over the heap and hiding and constantly moving key material through it is the idea behind Schneier's Boojum.

I searched for this term, "Schneier's Boojum" and the results suggest clearly this is Bruce Schneier you're referring to.

But I'm not seeing this Boojum as a concept explained in quick results, actually, one of your prior comments mentioning it is top result. [1]

Would you please explain what you mean by Boojum / link to what you're referring to?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27941909

See here: https://spacetime.dev/memory-retention-attacks

Thank you for this clarification.

I think you're mixing things up. The valuable data isn't related to the load time of an application into memory.

The joke was that there would be more memory to sift through.

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