You now remember this fabricated fearmongering made to push people to upgrade their cpus otherwise the boogeyman will steal your bits and you will get hackered
>mitigations=off>nword=onyep, it's hacker time
>>107102458forgot to disable smt
This was one of the largest tech related scams i can think of.Even worse than crypto scams. Because if you didn't care for it, it didn't affect you, while the mitigation updoots affected everyone.
>>107102815preempt=on
>Ryzen comes out >Intel: oh shit oh fuck how can we get people to buy our new cpus instead of the quadcore garbage we sold for a decade. oh fuck theyre comparing Ryzen to our dogshit i7 6700 ah fuck we're getting destroyed. oh wait we got it: lets make up some shit about being vulnerable if you dont install patches that kneecap your performance. you better upgrade goy or you will lose everything!amazing con.
>>107102184they still exist and are found in the wild. they're not something a skiddie will pull off, since they require developing new timing side channels every time the last one gets patched, and the work involved is rather complicated.you should still never save passwords to accounts you care about to the browser, malicious websites will be able to read them.
>>107103100Nah retard even with os wide mitigations=off, modern browser are using their own mitigations and protected memory space.You should be more worried about the retard who clicks on every link without even using ublock.
>>107102458stole your joke >>107103117
>>107103134>mitigationsfor old implementations of spectre.>protected memory spacethat's completely irrelevant to how spectre works, since even having the same library loaded or having access to the same cache data allows it to cross virtual memory boundaries. anything that links libc is vulnerable.>You should be more worried about the retard who clicks on every link without even using ublock.you should concern yourself with everything.
