From: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
To: Leah Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 23:17:11 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shb8qxl4.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <405e966d-581d-d6f5-e085-ecad532ffcc6@gluglug.org.uk> (Leah Rowe's message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2018 08:56:41 +0000")
Leah Rowe <info@gluglug.org.uk> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-14 15:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-10 8:56 What do Meltdown and Spectre mean for libreboot x200 user? Leah Rowe
2018-01-14 15:17 ` Alex Vong [this message]
2018-01-15 11:32 ` Leah Rowe
2018-01-15 13:25 ` Andy Wingo
2018-01-19 14:26 ` Leah Rowe
2018-01-19 14:29 ` Leah Rowe
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2018-01-06 13:20 Alex Vong
2018-01-06 17:23 ` Mark H Weaver
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