All Questions
Tagged with spectre web-browser
3
questions
2
votes
1
answer
825
views
Does enabling SharedArrayBuffers via service worker headers create Spectre vulnerability?
In browsers, use of SharedArrayBuffer is restricted to sites with the following HTTP headers because otherwise it exposes vulnerabilities to Spectre and Meltdown.
Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy: require-...
- 123
2
votes
2
answers
351
views
Should I wait until Spectre and Meltdown is fixed in hardware? [duplicate]
I have a Laptop that needs replacing due to age.
I will be using this laptop for desktop use, including Office Apps, Development, Running VMs & Web Browsing. I will be using separation using ...
4
votes
1
answer
971
views
Can I disable access to JS APIs in the browser such as highres timers?
In the wake of recent news of CPU bugs like Meltdown and Spectre which rely on precise(-ish) measurments of elapsed time, I find myself in the mood for disabling things like window.performance.now() ...
- 161