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I think one of the reasons is that nowadays we run a lot more untrusted code on top of our hardware, due to things like Javascript and virtualization. Meltdown

by ufo 8y ago

I think one of the reasons is that nowadays we run a lot more untrusted code on top of our hardware, due to things like Javascript and virtualization. Meltdown and Spectre would not be as dangerous 20 years ago.