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Unless you're incredibly rich, a terrorist or otherwise wanted by an intelligence service or going to DEFCON the chances of you being targeted with a Spectre-like attack is almost zero. I don't think there has been a single, large scale attack using this family of exploits.
These are spook exploits, not steal your credit card and bitcoins exploits.
1000% agreed; it’s not terribly risky in the general case.
But I don’t want to mislead anyone into getting their bank account stolen if they like to hang out on russian warez sites.
Oh for sure. I wasn’t disagreeing with the warning, just providing some context so people can judge the risk.
It isn’t like you were telling them to install Shockwave Flash or anything 😂