| ▲ | computerbuster 8 hours ago | |
Looking forward to a future where we can arbitrarily DoS anyone with a PDF that computes massive swaths of prime numbers. | ||
| ▲ | fc417fc802 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
You used to be able to DoS the user's browser by sticking thousands of tiny animated gifs on the same page. You can't do that any more (AFAIK) because that's a bug so the browser developers fixed it. This is the same thing. It's odd that apple didn't proactively guard against such concerns when adding a new format. | ||
| ▲ | eru 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
PDFs can already do arbitrary computation. You can even play tetris in them. | ||
| ▲ | eviks 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Can't that future adopt basic resource / complexity limits to defuse the DOS bomb? | ||