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by wasdfff 1989 days ago
If you had a machine that was gapped could you disable the flushing?
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Any machine that runs only verified code (ie. no JavaScript in the browser, no downloading nifty things and running them) don't need the flushes. Problem is (as shown by the Solarwind hack) even code you should be able to trust can be backdoored. However: if that is the attack vector, spectre and its' offspring are not your real concern: there are much more efficient and effective ways to compromise your machine if a blob of binary ends of being backdoored.