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Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities

Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 9, 2023 14:16 UTC (Wed) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)
In reply to: Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities by adobriyan
Parent article: Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities

IMHO there should be no problem disabling mitigations for this kind of thing. If you're the only person using your computer, what difference do they make? Any processes are probably running as you anyway. If you let untrusted code on your computer you're probably screwed with or without these vulns.


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Another round of speculative-execution vulnerabilities

Posted Aug 9, 2023 21:45 UTC (Wed) by DemiMarie (subscriber, #164188) [Link]

“If you let untrusted code on your computer you're probably screwed with or without these vulns.” Only if you are not using any form of sandboxing. If you are using a web browser, you are.


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