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userbinator on July 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Retbleed: New speculative execution attack sends I...

Ironically, you could also assume the background noise will increase in the future, due to the increasing popularity of running software with built-in spyware aka "telemetry"...

But some people have threat models that change that.

Those people (a minority for sure) know who they are, but we shouldn't be crippling the performance of everyone else just for them.

staticassertion on July 13, 2022 [–]

> Those people (a minority for sure) know who they are,

I highly doubt that. Most developers, by far, could not tell you the threat model for these attacks.

> but we shouldn't be crippling the performance of everyone else just for them.

You can turn the mitigations off.

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