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Mining is not a security issue though. It doesn't break into anything. It just wastes CPU cycles.

If by "delivered to websites" you mean without the site owner's consent, via ad networks or comments/whatever user generated content, then it's a problem of trust and/or content filtering, it's orthogonal to browser sandboxing.



it's orthogonal to browser sandboxing

Not at all, the owner of a website should not be able to coerce your browser to anything but display the page.


"Displaying the page" has meant "running arbitrary application code" since Netscape. If you don't agree, disable JavaScript completely and enjoy the 100% working pages everywhere ;)


There is a big difference between executing a little JS to do a button rollover, and performing arbitrary computation!




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