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What if the accessibility settings let you set a maximum framerate for automatically playing moving image content in Safari?
by doctorpangloss 10y ago
What if the accessibility settings let you set a maximum framerate for automatically playing moving image content in Safari?
- jordache 10y agoThen the attacker can just pad the malicious content with something benign and then surprise you while watching
- iaw 10y agoThere are a number of potential ways to mitigate this type of attack, what concerns me more is the person/people that do this.
- conistonwater 10y agoI'm looking at http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/triggers-seizures/photosensitivity-and-seizures http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/triggers-seizures/photosensiti..., and it seems it's not just the framerate that matters. In particular, 5 to 30 frames per second might be enough, and it depends on the actual image contents. It also makes it sound like static images might also be triggers.
- darkhorn 10y agoThis explains why a guy had epilepsy in the metro few days ago. There are bulbs every few meters apart in the tunnel and while the train travels fast it looks like the windows of the metro train flash.