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Chrome doesn't exclusively use process isolation, several sites will share the same chrome process. This is only one example, another might be for instance, aut
by throwaway2048 7y ago
Chrome doesn't exclusively use process isolation, several sites will share the same chrome process. This is only one example, another might be for instance, authenticating users on one thread, and sensitive authenticated data on another, which is an extremely common pattern.
- rrss 7y agoChrome turned on site isolation by default in chrome 67: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-with-site-isolation.html https://security.googleblog.com/2018/07/mitigating-spectre-w... My point is that the OS has no responsibility to isolate threads from one another, regardless of how many applications may try to do it themselves anyway.