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Could you outline/bring clarity to why that is totally unimportant for many use cases?

• lgats 7y ago
  I suppose most uses of the RBP don't involve running 3rd party code. Although, I do think this is an important issue to address.
• 21717117 7y ago
  [1]. tl;dr It's just a read-only local privilege escalation exploit, and that _is_ bad if you let malicious code get into your machine. [1] https://www.sweharris.org/post/2018-01-04-meltdown_spectre/ https://www.sweharris.org/post/2018-01-04-meltdown_spectre/
• pulse7 7y ago
  In most cases RPI will not be used as a host on which many VMs from different customers will run. Many embedded systems will not have browser with JavaScript enabled. And so on...
• theedwood 7y ago
  Because there are still, over a year later, no reported cases of any spectre/meltdown vulnerabilities actively being used in the wild.