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Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more (arstechnica.com)
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[–] JaddedFauceet 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some browsers such as cromite disable JIT compilation and WebAssembly by default. Allowing you to opt-in to enable these features on a site by site bases.

JIT and WebAssembly have been the source of many high profile CVE in browser recently including the one mentioned in the post (well, this one is on Safari's Chrome).

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