Do I understand correctly that as long as I am the only user on my Mac this vulnerability is basically not relevant to me?
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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From what I understand, yes. This vulnerability is to gain information about another user using the same computer (at the same time?). This is why I have disabled the performance-impacting spectre/meltdown mitigations on my home Windows PCs.