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How dangerous is a virus introduced to a malicious website in chrome?

I am using Google's Chrome browser under Linux (Ubuntu) 64 bit for web browsing. If I a virus uses for example a leak in the flash player, the virus will get the privileges of the user who started ...
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Are sandboxes overrated?

I've stumbled upon the following on the blog of the NoScript developer Giorgio Maone. First, he quotes the following ArsTechnica article about an XSS bug in Adobe Flash: As useful as sandboxes ...