Spectre and Meltdown are two vulnerabilities unlikely to affect the normal home usage of a computer. Are surely a concern for computers that are employed in com

Spectre and Meltdown are two vulnerabilities unlikely to affect the normal home usage of a computer. Are surely a concern for computers that are employed in companies or where you have to manage sensitive data, but surely for the desktop user is not a concern. We are talking of very elaborate attacks that are not something you find everyday. It's something to the level that a government agency could do, not the random attaccker that only wants to encrypt your data and ask you for a payment. Beside that in most desktop settings is even useless, you don't even care about elevating privileges with a vulnerability, since most users work with the administrator account anyway (yes there is UAC to ask for privileges but let's face it, 99% of users always click yes because they are used like this). I usually disable mitigations on my personal computers and I'm not concerned about it.