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He also said: if you are running a system and you don't trust your users, you should definitively disable Hyperthreading. Hence I believe hyperthreading is an
by melicerte 7y ago
He also said: if you are running a system and you don't trust your users, you should definitively disable Hyperthreading.
Hence I believe hyperthreading is an option disabled for sane defaults.
- Skunkleton 7y agoAre scripts loaded in a web browser considered "users". If so, don't most people run systems which cant trust all of their users?
- beatgammit 7y agoNo, the person using the browser that loads the scripts is the user. The user has the option to disable JavaScript, so they are responsible for whatever they allow to be run on the machine. If you don't trust yourself to use the web safely, then put limits on what a naughty script can do. One option is to disable hyperthreading.
- Skunkleton 7y agoThat's like saying that its the users fault if their box was compromised by heartbleed. You never know what exploits are out there.