<story><title>Update on Meltdown and Spectre</title><url>https://engineering.coinbase.com/update-on-meltdown-and-spectre-45d344c47b5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>thisisit</author><text>This announcement makes me wonder - Are there any banking  laws to protect someone who loses money due to a hack?&lt;p&gt;The JS thing is a huge deal so someone might get their online banking credentials stolen and then account emptied. In which case, how helpful are the banks in helping to recover the money?&lt;p&gt;On the cryptocurrency side people need to secure their own money and ensure they don&amp;#x27;t open some shady ICO site.  So stolen credentials means the money is gone forever.&lt;p&gt;Edit: FDIC insurance is applicable for the banks ie if the banks get hacked. The question here is on individuals getting hacked. I am not able to find if FDIC covers that.</text></comment>
<story><title>Update on Meltdown and Spectre</title><url>https://engineering.coinbase.com/update-on-meltdown-and-spectre-45d344c47b5</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>liamzebedee</author><text>[related] Has anyone considered the possibility of a Spectre-style attack in Ethereum&amp;#x27;s Turing-complete EVM? Not that the state would be unique for all contracts, but there&amp;#x27;s a possibility of communicating to an external contract with the output.</text></comment>