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HTML doesn’t have the potential to deliver Spectre like attacks because:

1. No timers - timers are generally a required gadget & often they need to be hires or building a suitable timing gadget gets harder & your bandwidth of the attack goes down

2. No loops - you have to do timing stuff in a loop to exploit bugs in the predictor.



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