Is there any real danger for desktop users? We should be allowed to skip this patch if we dont want it, I would rather take the risk than the performance hit.
For desktop users there should not be any noticeable performance degradation. But they are also likely the ones in the most danger, since they execute random code in their web browsers.
I might be wrong, but shouldn't browser makers be able to prevent executing scripts from exploiting the low level memory manipulation this requires?
Random code that makes direct kernel calls? Or is that not necessary?