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		xrisk on June 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance I don’t think that’s a good safety heuristic.

hjek on June 19, 2021 [–]

I agree that it's not good, yet anecdotally I've realized that a device has been compromised by running `top`, on Windows and on Linux. It's not a good heurestic because it's only disvoverable post-compromise.

jtbayly on June 19, 2021 | [–]

I’ve discovered a compromise before because of the fans going full speed on a server.

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