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		lucideer on April 10, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Make Linux Fast Again (2019) > SPECTRE & friends are not a credible attack, for instance because you disable JS by default That's... an extremely optimistic perspective on what's running on your system. Disabling JS in browser tab contexts (even if it's universal and not just "by default") is going to cover a pretty small percentage of SPECTRE et al. vectors.

yjftsjthsd-h on April 10, 2020 [–]

What other vectors are there? Assuming that I trust my local software (because if I don't then spectre is the least of my problems).

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