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> but increases the damage when it does.

For this to be true, I think you would have to assume an "additive" model where each time corrupt memory is accessed it does some small amount of additional "damage". But for memory holding CPU instructions, I think it's more likely that the first time a corrupt byte is read, the program crashes.

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