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All of the attacks are relevant in any environment where you execute code that you would rather not have access to any other information on your system (i.e. where you actually care about privileges).

For example, there have been demos of spectre in-browser, but applies to multi-user environments or simply apps that you didn't grant admin privs...

If you treat your computer security in a DOS/Win95 fashion, then none of them are relevant.




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