[fsniper]

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"

[ruszki]

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?

[costco]

I think he's referring to CPU mitigations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_execution_CPU_vulner...