> I've been indifferent to all these sidechannel attacks since the original Spectre/Meltdown and continue to maintain my opinion that this is really not of any significance to a single-user PC.
The original attacks worked in javascript that could be delivered by a browser to your single-user PC. Being able to steal secrets -- passwords, bank account information, ephemeral encryption keys to other sites -- is absolutely very significant to single-user computers.
Dismissing it without consideration for mitigations is malicious IMO.
The original attacks worked in javascript that could be delivered by a browser to your single-user PC. Being able to steal secrets -- passwords, bank account information, ephemeral encryption keys to other sites -- is absolutely very significant to single-user computers.
Dismissing it without consideration for mitigations is malicious IMO.