Things to know about Spectre and Meltdown: These are local exploits - code must be executed locally, they cannot be exploited remotely to compromise a system - in most cases if malicious code can run on your system, you will be compromised even without this flaw
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Replying to @drericcole
so reports about execution via web browsers are incorrect?
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Replying to @bosconet
If you connect to a malicious link from your browser, the attacker could run code and exploit the vulnerable, but it requires the user to take action - if a user connects to a malicious site, they can be compromised regardless
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Replying to @drericcole @bosconet
And then an attacker places an ad on an otherwise harmless site, and boom, code execution.
6:15 AM - 6 Jan 2018
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