> Though I can't quite imagine why anyone would want to do this to some random stranger. You must be new to the internet? > Unless you knew the visitor or had

> Though I can't quite imagine why anyone would want to do this to some random stranger. You must be new to the internet? > Unless you knew the visitor or had some means of personally identifying him/her, there are more devastating ways of filling up a remote HD with just an IP and hostname (nmap and friends come to mind). There's a few things: This works by sending someone a link. So you can target people without knowing their IP. It's also so easy a kid could do it. Therefore, kids will do it, just to "fuck with eachother's shit". Not to mention, they'll do it to the school and the library, etc etc. There's also enough people doing things "for the lulz". Spam this link to a thousand people, crash a few PCs, hur hur hur. Again, the fact that it's browser-based and not IP-based allows for different types of attacks. They can spam specific communities and fora they don't like or are at odds with. .. By the way, when I ran that site in Opera, it asked me whether I wanted to grant the site extra storage space, which I declined. I didn't feel like testing it in Chrome and crashing my things right now, but am I correct in assuming Chrome would not ask for this extra storage space, but simply take it, without any kind of upper limit?