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Absolutely. I will be really pissed of if I'm forced to run a -30% kernel performance on my dev laptop, or god knows how much of my 1/2 decade old T420's to fix

Absolutely. I will be really pissed of if I'm forced to run a -30% kernel performance on my dev laptop, or god knows how much of my 1/2 decade old T420's to fix a problem I don't have. Yes, I expect my cloud provider and bank to apply the patch, my ARM based router is fine. Thanks, but no thanks, do not want.

cryptonector 9y ago
You have secrets, some of them worth a lot: - cookies (e.g., for online banking sessions) - keys (e.g., for pushing to git repos) - browser history - identities (oh, did you post anonymously somewhere?) - ... PoC code that runs in-browser exists. It's only a matter of time before it's weaponized.
- aidenn0 9y ago
  That's spectre, not meltdown with the in-browser PoC
- jnordwick 9y ago
  There is no in browser meltdown exploit at all. And even the whitepaper doesn't have a working js exploit of spectre, just a couple pieces and some assumptions.