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It's a bit similar to Windows 9x -- anything can do anything. It might not be suspectible to Meltdown and Spectre per se, but the lack of security that grants
by chungy 9y ago
It's a bit similar to Windows 9x -- anything can do anything.
It might not be suspectible to Meltdown and Spectre per se, but the lack of security that grants that property still means a lack of security.
- dfox 9y agoWindows 9x has process isolation, but has no concept of permissions thus any process can do anything that is provided by the OS API (which includes reading and writing memory of other processes, injecting code into kernel and such things). This means that it is very unlikely for misbehaving process to compromise the integrity of OS itself or other processes (modulo the fact that such process can confuse some other OS component, eg. window manager, such that the system becomes essentially unusable).