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		Tuna-Fish on March 25, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based plat... Before browsers got patched, meltdown could be used to steal browser encryption keys using js. This absolutely would have affected normal people.

mik1998 on March 25, 2024 [–]

"could", theoretically. In practice, there has never been an observed exploitation of the supposed vulnerability.

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oynqr on March 25, 2024 | [–]

Just don't do that on modern AMD processors, you'll lose performance.

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