> I store them in Gnome Keyring. I store them in my head. :)
> Nothing can save us from Spectre except a new CPU. Yep, and the new CPUs are sure to require a non-free BIOS. Spectre is very bad news for freedom and privacy. > Recently I started doing something which is probably silly: if I have to > enable JS for short in a particular website, I close all other programs and > all other browser tabs. The idea is to have less info in the memory which > could be broken into. However this may be a really silly overkill because > certain data remains cached in memory even after the program is closed + > that doesn't mean other processes are not running. So maybe I am just > paranoid. It was so nice in single-tasking 16-bit times :) I think you're wise to do this. As you say, it's not foolproof, but since there is no solution for Spectre right now the best we can do is limit the number and magnitude of opportunities to exploit it.
