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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I'm looking for more info or ideas on how one might protect them self given Meltdown and Spectre.</p>
<p>Now that it has come to light that computer memory is not completely segregated or kept private by the CPU hardware... a failure in design allowing a hacker access to even the CPU Kernel memory. This is catastrophic. </p>
<p>I'm reading the initial solution is for the O/S manufactures to patch their Kernel to secure the memory at its boundaries. In and of itself this seems to be a weak approach, however probably the only one at this point.</p>
<p>I am reading that the real solution is a new bread of CPU that does not have this vulnerability. It would seem even modifying the existing CPUs and manufacturing them would take months if not a year or so. In the meantime we have to survive with hardware patched with software. </p>
<p>I read that desktops are the most vulnerable. Maybe that should be any devise that runs a browser. The browser is the point of failure. Introduce some rogue JavaScript and your memory is compromised. </p>
<p><a title="This article says" href="http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/how-hackers-can-read-your-websites-passwords-using-meltdown-and-spectre-with-solution" target="_blank">This article says</a> one should enable site isolation using Chrome.</p>
<p>At this point my preventative steps are:</p>
<p>1) flush all browsers of any usernames, passwords and history.</p>
<p>2) Only run the latest version of Chrome and only Chrome.</p>
<p>3) Configure Chrome to run in isolation mode. </p>
<p>Anyone have any other thoughts?</p>
<p>Thank you in advance. </p>
<p>Keith </p>
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