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Asooka on Jan 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack

Maybe show a more descriptive dialog like "do you trust x.com not to deliberately misuse your personal data (advanced->timer access)"

inimino on Jan 4, 2018 [–]

But that would be wrong. It's not your personal data. It's "do you trust x.com not to potentially serve you compromised JS that could be used to hack your computer" which 99.99% of regular web users do not have the necessary background to understand.

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