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Spectre can be used to leak arbitrary memory from a process iirc. So, if you have a process with nothing interesting it should be fine.
by foota 9y ago
Spectre can be used to leak arbitrary memory from a process iirc. So, if you have a process with nothing interesting it should be fine.
- josteink 9y agoI thought for Intel processors it leaked across all processes, including outside user-space. Or was that meltdown?
- ChrisSD 9y agoMeltdown allows information to leak across ring boundaries. Spectre by itself doesn't. Meltdown is relatively easy to fix whereas Spectre is a more fundamental issue with how most modern chips are designed.
- criddell 9y agoThat's my understanding as well. If you are writing a new Notepad.exe, you probably don't care about Spectre.