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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by callalex on Sunday June 26, 2016 @04:59PM (#11982694)
Please let this meme die. There are very few people left in the world that truly believe that hypervisors are leaking your pii all the time.
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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Tepix on Thursday July 07, 2016 @09:26AM (#12049131)
There are many different types of virtualization. Most of them use disk images, meaning someone can read (or even write to) your disk without you noticing.

Some of them are lightweight virtualizations where a priviledged outside user can run processes inside the VM without requiring authorization or without being logged.

How is this a meme that needs to die?

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