[svandamme]

well, technically, if they can plant software on the pc, you are already screwed.. It's to late then.

And they didn't need meltdown or spectre for that.. They could simply plant a keylogger and you gave em the password yourself.


And I would rephrase that, the end user is the first line of defence, not the last.
It's like having a house with a fancy lock on all doors, alarm system looking in and outside the house.. a surveillance camera system and every bell and whistle known to man kind..

And then the home owner leaves the house and forgets to turn it on.

or, and i've seen this happen.. he leaves the master code of the system to factory default while he has stickers of the alarm system brand on his door.