[willvarfar]

in this particular case, will the generalization help their readership?

I actually think it will - it would be easy to give more accurate details that cause many readers to glaze over.

[marmaduke]

That was my reaction. How to ELI5 the risk in multitenant VM environment? It could steal passwords

[blattimwind]

> How to ELI5 the risk in multitenant VM environment? Some other guy paying EC2 steals your customers passwords by sheer force of will

> How to ELI5 the risk in desktop PC? A piece of JavaScript in some 0x0 pixel iframe in a tab you're not even looking at stealing your passwords and SSH keys

(Although nothing is proven in the latter regard, I wouldn't be per se surprised to see something in that direction once the exact nature of the issue is more widely known)