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by meepmorp 3083 days ago
Unless, of course, the site you trust is hosted in a shared hosting VM which is also vulnerable to spectre or meltdown. In which case, you can’t trust the scripts.
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spectre can read, not write.
If I can read arbitrary data, what’s stopping me from reading the credentials I need to write data?
What if I read the sites TLS/SSL keys? I could MITM the connection and inject JS to do more malcious thing.

Or even easier get the ssh key for the VM. Then do what ever I want.

If it can read the right data (private keys, etc.), then it can write whatever it wants.