Comment by fsniper
1 month ago
Unfortunate result of the security theater.. "Someone who has access to run privileged application can run side channel attacks! Let's drop cpu performance 20 percent over the world"
1 month ago
Unfortunate result of the security theater.. "Someone who has access to run privileged application can run side channel attacks! Let's drop cpu performance 20 percent over the world"
As I understood it’s enough to have “access to run privileged application” anywhere where the packet goes through. So, not necessarily at client or server sides. Or did I misunderstand?
I think he's referring to CPU mitigations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_execution_CPU_vulner...