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Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?
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Alex Vong |
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Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user? |
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Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:17:11 +0800 |
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Leah Rowe <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Alex,
>
> The libreboot mailing list is down, so you can't CC it at the moment.
> I was notified about this thread.
>
> There's not much we can do from the Libreboot side, but there are
> mitigations on kernel side... since it's exploitable from javascript
> you could also e.g. not run JavaScript. specing on #libreboot IRC had
> the idea to run Firefox without the JIT enabled - we both tried to
> compile the latest ESR however, with --disable-ion, and it segfaulted.
> I tried to build ff 45esr instead, but that build failed.
Thank you. I have updated my kernel. For the browser part, I currently
run tor browser with security level set to high (so that javascript is
disabled by default). Maybe you can tell people on #libreboot about this
solution if you like.
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, (continued)
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Chris Marusich, 2018/01/10
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Adonay Felipe Nogueira, 2018/01/10
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Tobias Platen, 2018/01/10
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Gábor Boskovits, 2018/01/10
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Marius Bakke, 2018/01/11
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Pjotr Prins, 2018/01/15
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Mike Gerwitz, 2018/01/15
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Pjotr Prins, 2018/01/16
- Re: Meltdown / Spectre, Chris Marusich, 2018/01/12
Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?, Leah Rowe, 2018/01/10
- Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?,
Alex Vong <=