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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by kibwen on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:05PM (#16067093)
> I think users can turn it off in firefox, how about Chrome?

This month's stable Chrome release will be outright disabling SharedArrayBuffer until additional mitigations are enacted.

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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by londons_explore on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @08:56PM (#16067358)
Which sucks for people who've built sites which rely on it.

It isn't exactly polyfillable.

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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by erichurkman on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @10:12PM (#16067734)
That shouldn't be that many sites. It only hit Chrome stable in July 2017; Firefox in August 2017; and Edge November 2017.
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