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No kidding, JS off by default and not running code you don't trust will always be a good idea. I also agree that I'm not really concerned about exploits that require running code on my machine; if the latter happens, I have far more serious things to worry about.

The exploits that do worry me, are ones that can be done remotely without any action from the user. Heartbleed is a good recent example. Fortunately those tend to be rare.

Security is always relative to a threat model, and not everyone wants perfect (if that can even be possible) security either, contrary to what a lot of the "security vultures" tend to believe.



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