The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: https://gofetch.fail/

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The second comment on the page sums up what I was going to point out:

I’d be careful making assumptions like this ; the same was true of exploits like Spectre until people managed to get it efficiently running in Javascript in a browser (which did not take very long after the spectre paper was released). Don’t assume that because the initial PoC is time consuming and requires a bunch of access that it won’t be refined into something much less demanding in short order.

Let’s not panic, but let’s not get complacent, either.

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That’s the sentiment I was going for.

There’s reason to care about this but it’s not presently a big deal.

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I mean, unpatchable vulnerability. Complacent, uncomplacent, I’m not real sure they look different.

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Can’t fix the vulnerability, but can mitigate by preventing other code from exploiting the vulnerability in a useful way.

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