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> If you follow those two basic things, websites cannot hurt your machine.

Oh yes they can. Quite a bunch of "helper" apps - printer drivers are a bit notorious IME - open up local HTTP servers, and not all of them enforce CORS properly. Add some RCE or privilege escalation vulnerability in that helper app and you got yourself an 0wn-from-the-browser exploit chain.




How often does that actually happen?




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