When Google first started talking about its Google Chrome OS software a few years ago, one of the selling points was the promise that it would come with much better built-in security than other operating systems. Now, Chrome OS has only been commercially available for a few months, and security researchers have already figured out how to hack it.
Two researchers told a crowd at the Black Hat security conference today that they had used web-based hacker tricks to compromise the security of the Chrome OS, which is the software that powers recently launched laptop-like Chromebooks from a variety of vendors. The hacks let the researchers get access to a user

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