Timing Attack
In 2006, a side channel attack was published that exploited clock skew based on CPU heating. The attacker causes heavy CPU load on a pseudonymous server, causing CPU heating. CPU heating is correlated with clock skew, which can be detected by observing timestamps (under the server's real identity).
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