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Demonstrating Spectre in a web browser

1 2021-03-12 18:52

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Leaky.Page-Spectre
https://security.googleblog.com/2021/03/a-spectre-proof-of-concept-for-spectre.html

Google did it, a publicly available proof of concept spectre exploit for web browsers.
Demo page: https://leaky.page/

2 2021-03-13 21:37

Is this the same Google that wants browser APIs to USB, Bluetooth, serial ports, etc.?

3 2021-03-13 23:49

OMG I'm leaking! How fucked am I?

4 2021-03-14 01:18 *

OH GOD I'M LEEEEEEAAAAAKIIIINNG

5 2021-03-14 05:55 *

>>2
It's a rehash of throw hammer by the inane google bots.

6 2021-03-14 12:53 *

>>2
Chrome OS is the future because every mainstream OS includes Chrome. The Rust guys are making WebAssembly a stronger building block for Chrome OS.

7 2021-03-14 17:56

>>6
How can we prevent this?

8 2021-03-15 06:45 *

>>7
Grab source code of all proprietary drivers and emancipate all hardware.

9 2021-03-15 21:25

Would it still work if I've got all XHR disabled?

10 2021-03-16 10:51

Updated intel-ucode. Still leaking.

11 2021-03-16 13:48

How would XHR break this?

12 2021-03-20 12:08

fuck modern CPUs
fuck JS
fuck Google

13 2021-03-20 12:09

>>4
Leak all over the web babe

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