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by _urga 5771 days ago
Re: "sounds plenty dangerous to me"

Often, it's the "sounds plenty dangerous" innovations (fire, automobile, chainsaw, theory of relativity), that provide the most utility.

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Oh, certainly. The fact that it can be used for evil makes it no less impressive and useful for other purposes. But thinking of this attack makes me wonder if our browser security models are getting outdated. With things like this possible, and so much valuable data being web-based these days, is there any way of using cool things like that yet avoiding the major risks?
Flight, gunpowder, surgery, sailing, heliocentrism.