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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by hnonlyforu on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @08:58AM (#16106145)
Same thing could happen to apps. There was a Baidu app in China that secretly downloaded random videos just to eat up the users' data plan, so they will buy more data.
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Re:What Spectre and Meltdown Mean for WebKit by alien_at_work on Tuesday January 09, 2018 @09:05AM (#16106196)
Again: we've always known that desktop apps were risky and could do anything to our computer (and for years, a lot of "free" windows software installed malware and viruses). We were always told that JavaScript is "sandboxed".
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