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* [gentoo-user] Re: Spectre and Meltdown summary
  @ 2018-01-04 12:21 99% ` Adam Carter
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From: Adam Carter @ 2018-01-04 12:21 UTC (permalink / raw
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Browser stuff

I'm guessing this relates to Variant1;
@hackerfantastic "Blackhats will be weaponizing spectre to steal session
cookies from additional websites opened in the browser, especially
financial sites. Enable site isolation in Chrome now.
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/7623121?hl=en-GB"

Sounds like Mozilla will make some changes in Firefox 57 to make the
attacks more difficult;
"Our internal experiments confirm that it is possible to use similar
techniques from Web content to read private information"
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/03/mitigations-landing-new-class-timing-attack/

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