I can't help thinking of how the early-ITS approach to security (not only was there none, but looking at other users' work was a deliberate feature) was embraced by its users. I'm way too young to remember, but it rings a bell somewhere down my heart.<p>There's a lot of prominence being given to all kinds of damage malicious users might inflict, and ways to prevent or mitigate, but little to the <i>malice</i> itself. Whence does it arise? What emotions drive those users? What unmet needs?<p>Meanwhile, when these slowing-down patches for Sceptre and Meltdown arrive, I intend to <i>not</i> run them, to the possible extent. I intend to keep aside a VM with patches for critical stuff, like banking or others' data entrusted to me. But I don't want my machine to be slowed down just because someone, sometime, might invest effort in targeting these attacks at it. Given how transparent I want to be with my life, that's a risk I'm willing to take.