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Re:Nginx on Wasmjit by monocasa on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:22PM (#18649952)
It's worse than what you're stating. Spectre is remotely exploitable with network packets (NetSpectre). The current state of the world isn't just fine with process level security, and the chip vendors are going to need to fix it, because ultimately you can exploit then if you control the data, not just the code. They have several options available to them, all of which also let's you run sandboxed untrusted code in the same MMU context as trusted code.
Re:Nginx on Wasmjit by kllrnohj on Monday December 10, 2018 @09:45PM (#18652982)
It is unclear if NetSpectre works in a real environment, but either way it's fundamentally similar to an IPC call and can be treated as such. As in, that's where you'd insert hardening boundaries.

Chip vendors have & will fix process boundaries. But nobody is talking about any sort of protection of any kind that would let in-process sandboxing work again. It's just not even on the table at this point.