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Absolutely. I will be really pissed of if I'm forced to run a -30% kernel performance on my dev laptop, or god knows how much of my 1/2 decade old T420's to fix a problem I don't have. Yes, I expect my cloud provider and bank to apply the patch, my ARM based router is fine.

Thanks, but no thanks, do not want.



You have secrets, some of them worth a lot:

    - cookies (e.g., for online banking sessions)
    - keys (e.g., for pushing to git repos)
    - browser history
    - identities (oh, did you post anonymously somewhere?)
    - ...
PoC code that runs in-browser exists. It's only a matter of time before it's weaponized.


There is no in browser meltdown exploit at all.

And even the whitepaper doesn't have a working js exploit of spectre, just a couple pieces and some assumptions.


That's spectre, not meltdown with the in-browser PoC




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