> There are variants of Spectre and Meltdown that expose kernel memory. If you're really in a position where you don't think that makes a difference, then why are you messing around with user accounts in the first place? Why aren't you running all your software as root?

I'll be honest, because that's the default on Linux (I'd make the effort to do that for my personal things at least - I'd never do that on computers with shared accounts or with work-related data).

https://xkcd.com/1200 is as true as it ever was.