Re: Fedora vs. Meltdown & Spectre

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On Thu, 2018-01-04 at 17:58 -0600, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> On 01/04/2018 05:32 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Browsing a malicious website that runs Javascript can be a problem.
> > Site isolation is a mitigation technique that provides partial
> > protection. Hints for Chrome can be found at:
> > 
> > https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7622138
> > 
> > Presumably similar techniques can be applied to Firefox.
> 
> Yes, but his question was "can someone attack me remotely?"
> 
> He would have to navigate to a malicious website for the vulnerability to affect 
> him. A local action.

Certainly, but the attack is nonetheless remote, since it's coming from
a non-local adversary. I think it's better to be clear rather than
ambiguous.

poc
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