Site isolation is designed to prevent the theft of passwords or other sensitive data.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/chrome-enables-site-isolation-to-blunt-the-threat-of-spectre-attacks/
* “Meltdown” and “Spectre”: Every modern processor has unfixable security flaws
* new class of vulnerability that came to light in January
* same origin policy
* blog post published Wednesday
* Site Isolation
* multi-process architecture
* out-of-process iframes
* pursuing this for several years
* improve the Chrome extension security model
* Cross-Origin Read Blocking
* Fetch spec
* Web developers should check that their resources are served with the right MIME type and with the nosniff response header
* this link