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Re:A Spectre proof-of-concept for a Spectre-proof web by ddworken on Friday March 12, 2021 @06:45PM (#26442370)
This only allows reading data from the current process. Chrome and Edge have something called site-isolation where every site has its own process. In principle, this means that a site can only read its own resources. The catch here is that there are a bunch of different ways a site can include potentially sensitive resources from other sites (e.g. via referencing them with an `img` tag). So sensitive endpoints need to opt-in to additional protections that ensure they do not end up in cross-site browser processes.

But no, this isn't game over for running untrusted JS. It just means that we need to assume that JS can access anything in the same process.

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