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bee_rider • yesterday at 5:20 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

Realistically we’re never going to be free of rowhammer and meltdown type attacks. Trying to prevent programs running on a computer from having full control of it just promotes a false sense of security.


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Grombobulous • yesterday at 12:49 PM

If we read the article Apple isn’t planning to prevent programs from having full control, they’re just going to have better separation and user controls for “full disk access” versus “access to a limited subset of folders.”

This will allow programs like Spotify to only specify limited folder access while it’ll allow programs like Backblaze Backup To specify full disk access.

chrisjj • yesterday at 4:14 PM

> Trying to prevent programs running on a computer from having full control of it just promotes a false sense of security.

Why would that stop at your computer's network socket?