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Looking forward to a future where we can arbitrarily DoS anyone with a PDF that computes massive swaths of prime numbers.
by computerbuster 19d ago
Looking forward to a future where we can arbitrarily DoS anyone with a PDF that computes massive swaths of prime numbers.
- eviks 19d agoCan't that future adopt basic resource / complexity limits to defuse the DOS bomb?
- eru 19d agoPDFs can already do arbitrary computation. You can even play tetris in them.
- fc417fc802 19d agoYou 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.