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9y ago
Thank you for clarifying, that what I thought. Still I find that the article is not clear enough on this point, I fell that some people will read this as "OMG they can control execution remotely, this the apocalypse". I mean to an
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9y ago
I think this part is misleading => "Spectre means that an attacker can control branches, so branches alone are no longer adequate for enforcing security properties." I think they meant "Spectre means an that attacker can A
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9y ago
I don't understand why they say Spectre can control branching in WebKit. Spectre is an information leak attack, it doesn't allow to modify memory. I could allow to find x in `is x == valueToCheck`. But if this is possible, even be