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On 2018-01-30, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> wrote:

> On some tech news site, I came across a comment to the effect that things
> like Meltdown and Spectre wouldn't be such a big deal...
>
> if the only executable content our computers ran were programs we installed
> on them.

Then there are the programs the vendor installs on them, a.k.a "automatic
updates"...

> Maybe every computer that views the Internet, to be secure, needs to be two 
> computers.
>
> One conventional computer that's fast, and has, as a result, imperfect
> security, that one uses to run one's own programs.
>
> And a second very secure and somewhat slow computer. When viewing web sites,
> or opening word processor documents with macros, and so on, in order to
> properly sandbox this foreign executable content, it gets run on the slow
> computer.

I have something like that now.  When I do local processing my machine is
quite fast.  But there's a webmail server I sometimes use which switches
to the slow computer.  At least it acts like that; responses take between
10 and 30 seconds, and one CPU core is saturated all that time.

(Ow, my cheek hurts from putting my tongue that far into it...)

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