• john89@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    If you think a website is unsafe, don’t open it.

    Ahh yes, back to the dark ages of the internet where just clicking the wrong link can completely compromise your system.

    Thanks crapple and its useful idiots.

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      1 day ago

      I mean, Intel did it first and I do believe AMD and Qualcomm also followed suit.

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        17 hours ago

        Yes, and Apple decided to do the same thing knowing the risks.

        “Intel did it!” is not a panacea for apple; it makes things worse for them.

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          12 hours ago

          You can’t compete without doing it. Do you think Intel and AMD stopped doing it? Hell nah, people will find new exploits in a few years, I’m certain.

          If you don’t do speculative execution, you’ll be left in the dust unfortunately.

          If anything, this shows that there should be separate lines of CPUs for handling classified data and such, that don’t do it. But it would likely be prohibitively expensive to implement a separate product line.

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        17 hours ago

        Yes, I realize that.

        You do realize that this kind of attack happened after spectre and meltdown? Apple knew of the risks, but decided to ignore them.