diff --git a/app/components/Preview.jsx b/app/components/Preview.jsx
index 4c440c8e..933a6df4 100644
--- a/app/components/Preview.jsx
+++ b/app/components/Preview.jsx
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ import PreviewLoader from './loaders/Preview';
 import { Templates } from './TemplateForm';
 import grayMatter from 'gray-matter';
 import isEqual from 'lodash.isequal';
-import sanitizeHtml from 'sanitize-html';
 
 
 const { array, func, number, object, string } = PropTypes;
@@ -70,8 +69,8 @@ export default class Preview extends Component {
 
   componentWillMount() {
     this.props.previewLoader().then((deps) => {
-      this.markdownIt = deps.markdownIt({
-        html: true,
+      this.markdownIt = deps.markdownIt('commonmark', {
+        html: false,
         linkify: true,
         typographer: true,
         highlight: (str, lang) => {
@@ -84,7 +83,19 @@ export default class Preview extends Component {
           }
 
           return ''; // use external default escaping
+        },
+        modifyToken: function (token, env) {
+          switch (token.type) {
+             case 'link_open':
+               token.attrObj.rel = 'noreferrer noopener';
+               break;
+          }
         }
+      })
+      .enable('linkify');
+
+      deps.markdownItPlugins.forEach((plugin) => {
+        this.markdownIt.use(plugin);
       });
 
       this.emojione = deps.emojione;
@@ -129,19 +140,9 @@ export default class Preview extends Component {
    */
   getChunks(raw, env) {
     // Parse the whole markdown document and get tokens
-    let tokens = this.markdownIt.parse(raw, env);
-
-    // Sanitize html chunks to avoid browser DOM manipulation
-    // that could possibly crash the app (because of React)
-    tokens = tokens.map((token) => {
-      if (token.type === 'html_block') {
-        token.content = sanitizeHtml(token.content);
-      }
-
-      return token;
-    });
-
+    const tokens = this.markdownIt.parse(raw, env);
     const chunks = [];
+
     let start = 0;
     let stop = 0;
 
diff --git a/app/components/__tests__/Preview-test.js b/app/components/__tests__/Preview-test.js
index b00a7a12..e6197b30 100644
--- a/app/components/__tests__/Preview-test.js
+++ b/app/components/__tests__/Preview-test.js
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ import React from 'react';
 import { mount, shallow, render } from 'enzyme';
 import { expect } from 'chai';
 import mdit from 'markdown-it';
+import mditfa from 'markdown-it-fontawesome';
+import mditmt from 'markdown-it-modify-token';
 import emojione from 'emojione';
 import hljs from 'highlight.js';
 
@@ -20,6 +22,10 @@ describe('<Preview />', () => {
 
       return Promise.resolve({
         markdownIt: mdit,
+        markdownItPlugins: [
+          mditfa,
+          mditmt,
+        ],
         hljs: hljs,
         emojione: emojione
       });
@@ -229,76 +235,6 @@ describe('<Preview />', () => {
     }, 5);
   });
 
-
-  it('handles html block chunks', (done) => {
-    let chunks;
-    const wrapper = shallow(
-      <Preview
-        raw={''}
-        pos={0}
-        previewLoader={previewLoader}
-        template={''}
-      />
-    );
-
-    let html = [
-      '<div class="foo">',
-      '  <h3>sub-section</h3>',
-      '  <p>lorem ipsum</p>',
-      '</div>'
-    ];
-
-    setTimeout(() => {
-      const preview = wrapper.instance();
-
-      // raw html block
-      chunks = preview.getChunks(html.join('\n'), {});
-      expect(chunks).to.have.lengthOf(1);
-      expect(chunks[0]).to.have.lengthOf(1);
-      expect(chunks[0][0]).to.have.property('type', 'html_block');
-
-      // Insert an empty row
-      html.splice(2, 0, '\n');
-      chunks = preview.getChunks(html.join('\n'), {});
-      expect(chunks).to.have.lengthOf(2);
-      expect(chunks[0]).to.have.lengthOf(1);
-      expect(chunks[0][0]).to.have.property('type', 'html_block');
-      expect(chunks[1][0]).to.have.property('type', 'html_block');
-
-      done();
-    }, 5);
-  });
-
-  it('sanitizes incomplete html blocks', (done) => {
-    let chunks;
-    const wrapper = shallow(
-      <Preview
-        raw={''}
-        pos={0}
-        previewLoader={previewLoader}
-        template={''}
-      />
-    );
-
-    setTimeout(() => {
-      const preview = wrapper.instance();
-
-      chunks = preview.getChunks('<div class="foo">', {});
-      expect(chunks).to.have.lengthOf(1);
-      expect(chunks[0]).to.have.lengthOf(1);
-      expect(chunks[0][0]).to.have.property('type', 'html_block');
-      expect(chunks[0][0]).to.have.property('content', '<div></div>');
-
-      chunks = preview.getChunks('</div>', {});
-      expect(chunks).to.have.lengthOf(1);
-      expect(chunks[0]).to.have.lengthOf(1);
-      expect(chunks[0][0]).to.have.property('type', 'html_block');
-      expect(chunks[0][0]).to.have.property('content', '');
-
-      done();
-    }, 5);
-  });
-
   it('removes front-matter YAML header from preview', (done) => {
     const wrapper = mount(
       <Preview
@@ -393,4 +329,92 @@ describe('<Preview />', () => {
       done();
     }, 5);
   });
+
+  it('should not display iframes (#122)', (done) => {
+    const content = '<a href=""><iframe src="javascript:alert(1)"></iframe></a>';
+    const wrapper = mount(
+      <Preview
+        raw={content}
+        pos={0}
+        previewLoader={previewLoader}
+        template={''}
+      />
+    );
+
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      expect(wrapper.html()).not.to.contain(content);
+
+      done();
+    }, 5);
+  });
+
+  it('should not render bad input tag (#122)', (done) => {
+    const content = '<input onfocus=alert(1) autofocus>>';
+    const wrapper = mount(
+      <Preview
+        raw={content}
+        pos={0}
+        previewLoader={previewLoader}
+        template={''}
+      />
+    );
+
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      expect(wrapper.html()).not.to.contain('input onfocus="alert(1)" autofocus=""');
+
+      done();
+    }, 5);
+  });
+
+  it('should not render bad HTML tag (#122)', (done) => {
+    const content = '<<img onerror=alert(1) src=x/>>';
+    const wrapper = mount(
+      <Preview
+        raw={content}
+        pos={0}
+        previewLoader={previewLoader}
+        template={''}
+      />
+    );
+
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      expect(wrapper.html()).not.to.contain('img onerror="alert(1)" src="x/"');
+
+      done();
+    }, 5);
+  });
+
+  it('supports FontAwesome', (done) => {
+    const wrapper = mount(
+      <Preview
+        raw={':fa-globe:'}
+        pos={0}
+        previewLoader={previewLoader}
+        template={''}
+      />
+    );
+
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      expect(wrapper.html()).to.contain('<i class="fa fa-globe"></i>');
+
+      done();
+    }, 5);
+  });
+
+  it('should display links with rel="noopener"', (done) => {
+    const wrapper = mount(
+      <Preview
+        raw={'[foo](/url)'}
+        pos={0}
+        previewLoader={previewLoader}
+        template={''}
+      />
+    );
+
+    setTimeout(() => {
+      expect(wrapper.html()).to.contain('<a href="/url" rel="noreferrer noopener">foo</a>');
+
+      done();
+    }, 5);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/app/components/loaders/Preview.jsx b/app/components/loaders/Preview.jsx
index 1cfab8ad..1a4cc865 100644
--- a/app/components/loaders/Preview.jsx
+++ b/app/components/loaders/Preview.jsx
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ export default () => {
       resolve({
         hljs: require('highlight.js'),
         markdownIt: require('markdown-it'),
+        markdownItPlugins: [
+          require('markdown-it-fontawesome'),
+          require('markdown-it-modify-token'),
+        ],
         emojione: require('emojione')
       });
     });
diff --git a/app/scss/components/_preview.scss b/app/scss/components/_preview.scss
index 91ad528a..cb353bcf 100644
--- a/app/scss/components/_preview.scss
+++ b/app/scss/components/_preview.scss
@@ -79,4 +79,8 @@
           vertical-align: middle;
           line-height: 1.4rem;
       }
+
+      .fa {
+        margin-right: 0.5rem;
+      }
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f431c85f..7f1af50f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -59,6 +59,8 @@
     "lodash.debounce": "^4.0.3",
     "lodash.isequal": "^4.1.1",
     "markdown-it": "^6.0.0",
+    "markdown-it-fontawesome": "^0.2.0",
+    "markdown-it-modify-token": "^1.0.2",
     "mocha": "^2.4.5",
     "mocha-circleci-reporter": "0.0.1",
     "node-sass": "^3.4.2",
@@ -68,7 +70,6 @@
     "react-addons-test-utils": "^0.14.7",
     "react-dom": "^0.14.7",
     "react-loader": "^2.1.0",
-    "sanitize-html": "^1.11.3",
     "sass-loader": "^3.1.2",
     "sinon": "^1.17.3",
     "sjcl": "^1.0.3",