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A comment on Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw. Parent comment

Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by willvarfar on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:53AM (#16061403)
in this particular case, will the generalization help their readership?

I actually think it will - it would be easy to give more accurate details that cause many readers to glaze over.

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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by marmaduke on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:17AM (#16061618)
That was my reaction. How to ELI5 the risk in multitenant VM environment? It could steal passwords
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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by blattimwind on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:21AM (#16061659)
> How to ELI5 the risk in multitenant VM environment? Some other guy paying EC2 steals your customers passwords by sheer force of will

> How to ELI5 the risk in desktop PC? A piece of JavaScript in some 0x0 pixel iframe in a tab you're not even looking at stealing your passwords and SSH keys

(Although nothing is proven in the latter regard, I wouldn't be per se surprised to see something in that direction once the exact nature of the issue is more widely known)

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