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> Of all things that can be complained about, JS sandboxing is actually really hardened.

It's still very useful for people who want to run arbitrary code on your CPU. Both AMD and Intel have severe flaws, called "speculative execution CPU bugs", that can be exploited to extract credentials, encryption keys, session keys etc. from your computer - even information living in other applications or [hardware layer] VM's.




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