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A Critical Intel Flaw Breaks Basic Security for Most Computers

Published: Jan. 4, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

One of the most basic premises of computer security is isolation: If you run somebody else's sketchy code as an untrusted process on your machine, you should restrict it to its own tightly sealed playpen. Otherwise, it might peer into other processes, or snoop around the computer as a whole.