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Or use two different browsers.
by godshatter 8y ago
Or use two different browsers.
- bzbarsky 8y agoWouldn't matter, if the attack works as described. It's already exfiltrating data cross-process due to the processes sharing a resource (the CPU cache). It doesn't matter whether the processes are the same browser or different browsers. Now the actual "cache fingerprint" of a particular pageload might be different in different browsers, so it might not be possible to differentiate "site A loaded in Firefox" and "site B loaded in Chrome". Or it might be, and then you know not only what sites the user is visiting but what browser they're using to do it...