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A comment on Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre-type bugs. Parent comment

Re:Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre... by hylianwarrior on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:31AM (#19237298)
It's not _just_ JS though...
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Re:Google: Software is never going to be able to fix Spectre... by pmoriarty on Sunday February 24, 2019 @12:50AM (#19237336)
It's probably by far the largest vector for untrusted code in the world.

If its sandbox guarantees are broken by Spectre then the case for allowing it to run on one's machine becomes much weaker.

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