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by zeveb 3638 days ago
> Does anybody know of any "JS-only" exploits that have happened?

This was used to win a contest: https://securityevaluators.com/knowledge/papers/engineeringh...

Then there's this: http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/08/dram-bitflipping-exp...

And this looks to execute some shellcode (but maybe it doesn't work): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/381171/help-me-understand...

Regardless, the bottom line is clear: if you value security and privacy, you disable JavaScript.