No, spectre/meltdown wouldnt apply to that situation. The meltdown/spectre vulnerabilities is all about computer programs having access to data they should not. In order to exploit the attacker must be able to run computer programs on the victims computer.
-- brian On Thursday, January 4, 2018, Denny Vrandečić <vrande...@gmail.com> wrote: > I often get emails that someone is trying to get into my accounts. I guess > there are just some trolls, trying to login into my Wikipedia account. So > far, these have been unsuccessful. > > Now I got an email that someone asked for a temporary password for my > account. > > So far so good. What I am wondering is whether that password reset trial is > actually even more dangerous now given Spectre / Meltdown? > > Thoughts? > > (I probably should set up 2FA right now. Have been too lazy so far) > > Happy new year, > Denny > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
