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		pcwalton on April 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft loses control over Windows Tiles 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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