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Please either point directly to the article that claims to have uncovered this (which is behind a paywall) or don't post anything. Right now, there is zero evi

Please either point directly to the article that claims to have uncovered this (which is behind a paywall) or don't post anything. Right now, there is zero evidence that any of this is real.

gruez 11y ago
You can bypass the paywall by entering your email. Even in the full article they only mention a confidential source, which makes sense because even if it was real, it's very easy to cause a crash without leaving a trace in the app. For instance, the server might purposefully send a malformed response that causes the client to crash. full article mirror: https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg
- sparky_ 11y ago
  Did you use some tool or browser extension to generate this?
  - lelandbatey 11y ago
    I am not the person you asked, but I take screenshots for archival purposes not-infrequently (as seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845275). The tool that I use is Phantomjs with a script called 'rasterize.js`. The big plus for me was the ability to render arbitrary dpi images of web pages.
  - vmarsy 11y ago
    No the one you asked either, but I usually email me@onenote.com [1] from my Gmail account with the URL in the subject, and it saves the page as content AND as a long picture. It would probably not work here since it would require to be logged in or something, in that case I guess OneNote Clipper [2] would do the trick. [1]https://www.onenote.com/EmailToOneNote https://www.onenote.com/EmailToOneNote [2]http://www.brucebnews.com/2015/03/onenote-clipper-is-the-best-way-to-save-web-pages-and-onenote-keeps-getting-better/ http://www.brucebnews.com/2015/03/onenote-clipper-is-the-bes...
    - greenleafjacob 11y ago
      Sounds like Stallman's web program. [1] > I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. [1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
  - melloc 11y ago
    In Firefox's developer toolbar (Tools -> Web Developer -> Developer Toolbar), you can type 'screenshot --fullpage' and it will save an image of the entire page for you.
- incepted 11y ago
  > You can bypass the paywall by entering your email. No. I tried before commenting: you need to enter a credit card too. And the trick of looking up the article title on Google didn't work either.
- incepted 11y ago
  Thanks for the mirror. I didn't find any mention in the article of this "voluntary crash" claim, did I miss it?

Please either point directly to the article that claims to have uncovered this (which is behind a paywall) or don't post anything. Right now, there is zero evidence that any of this is real.

gruez 11y ago

You can bypass the paywall by entering your email. Even in the full article they only mention a confidential source, which makes sense because even if it was real, it's very easy to cause a crash without leaving a trace in the app. For instance, the server might purposefully send a malformed response that causes the client to crash. full article mirror: https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/umOEvs7.jpg

sparky_ 11y ago
Did you use some tool or browser extension to generate this?
- lelandbatey 11y ago
  I am not the person you asked, but I take screenshots for archival purposes not-infrequently (as seen here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10845275). The tool that I use is Phantomjs with a script called 'rasterize.js`. The big plus for me was the ability to render arbitrary dpi images of web pages.
- vmarsy 11y ago
  No the one you asked either, but I usually email me@onenote.com [1] from my Gmail account with the URL in the subject, and it saves the page as content AND as a long picture. It would probably not work here since it would require to be logged in or something, in that case I guess OneNote Clipper [2] would do the trick. [1]https://www.onenote.com/EmailToOneNote https://www.onenote.com/EmailToOneNote [2]http://www.brucebnews.com/2015/03/onenote-clipper-is-the-best-way-to-save-web-pages-and-onenote-keeps-getting-better/ http://www.brucebnews.com/2015/03/onenote-clipper-is-the-bes...
  - greenleafjacob 11y ago
    Sounds like Stallman's web program. [1] > I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see git://git.gnu.org/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. [1] https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html
- melloc 11y ago
  In Firefox's developer toolbar (Tools -> Web Developer -> Developer Toolbar), you can type 'screenshot --fullpage' and it will save an image of the entire page for you.
incepted 11y ago
> You can bypass the paywall by entering your email. No. I tried before commenting: you need to enter a credit card too. And the trick of looking up the article title on Google didn't work either.
incepted 11y ago
Thanks for the mirror. I didn't find any mention in the article of this "voluntary crash" claim, did I miss it?