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		Causality1 on April 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft loses control over Windows Tiles I don't use Chrome. I use Firefox and NoScript with a whitelist.

pcwalton on April 17, 2019 [–]

Null page mapping protection, SMAP, and SMEP improve security if you use Firefox, by making it harder to escape the content sandbox.

Causality1 on April 18, 2019 | [–]

Windows 7 has smep and windows 10 still lacks smap, though support is said to be imminent. Regardless they're not much of a concern when you're not running untrusted code.

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