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Re:New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre d... by Fnoord on Saturday May 01, 2021 @07:34AM (#27005411)
> Yeah, JS is the only hairy part. I considered mentioning it, since I know it was going to come up. But luckily, all I've seen so far are basic demos (like leaky.page) that read data from a carefully-crafted array that the page itself populated.

Only PoC says very little. If I were head of a nation state APT I'd look into exploiting this because attack surface of JS is high. I'd only use it targeted, for example on Microsoft Azure team as outlined in Darknet Diaries #78.

Re:New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre d... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday May 01, 2021 @10:03AM (#27006390)
If a nation state wants to hack into my computer, I have absolute confidence they will succeed. They are not a part of my personal threat model.
Re:New x86 micro-op vulnerability breaks all known Spectre d... by ben_w on Saturday May 01, 2021 @11:32AM (#27007078)
If they’re targeting me in particular, I agree.

If they’re targeting Joe and Jane Average, the long history of government tech procurement failures means I expect them to fail — fail dangerously, but fail.