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		DenisM on May 30, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nebulet: A microkernel that runs WebAssembly in Ri... Imagine you have a BASIC interpreter with a million cooperative threads. Can you write a BASIC program using spectre to break from one thread to another?

andreiw on May 30, 2018 [–]

“break”? no, but spectre is a confidentiality attack, and not even the only confidentiality attack that can be done...

yes you could, but the noise floor won’t be great

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