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Oh lord, Filldisk,com (Not linked to protect the terminally stupid) is the best "Proof of concept that wrecks your computer" that I've seen in a long time.
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@ceruleanspark "Firefox is immune" HA. HA HA. HAAAAAAAA.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:20:47 UTC from StatusNet Android-
@redenchilada >Google Chrome has stopped working
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@ceruleanspark The guy who made this is my hero.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:22:29 UTC from web-
@scoot So good of him to make the source code available too. Now, what was that one website whose server I had access to again?
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@ceruleanspark Oh. Oh god.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:26:54 UTC from web-
@scoot Interestingly it doesn't seem to have given me my hard disk space back. That's unfortunate.
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@ceruleanspark You can fix it though, right?
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:29:51 UTC from web-
@scoot Oh yeah. It's just a little unfortunate because there will be people who can't.
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@ceruleanspark Mm, you have a point there; what is it that it does to fill the drive? I decided against going to the site for obvious reasons.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:33:25 UTC from web-
@scoot Part of the HTML5 spec is that web apps are allowed to use storage on your machine to hold parts of themselves, like a "better" version of a regular browser cache. They're normally limited to a certain amount per domain, so one site shouldn't be able to download 1tb of data to your drive and claim it's essential. According to the standard, using a bunch of subdomains like 1.filldisk.whatever shouldn't allow you to bypass that limit, but unfortunately, browsers that aren't firefox don't enforce that, allowing you to create as many subdomains as it takes to fill a hard disk. The owner boasts that the script can fill 1gbps on a solid state drive.
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@ceruleanspark So this whole thing could be shut down by the other browsers just implementing a limitation, but they're too lazy and now this guy is able to wreck everyone's computers. Fantastic job everybody.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:39:56 UTC from web-
@scoot The purpose of releasing the site as a "Proof of concept" was to spur browser makers to patch quickly. Which Google, at least, will probably do. People on iOS, and presumably older versions of Android who aren't aware you can get better browsers through market (a shocking number of android users don't understand market at all) are probably boned though.
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@ceruleanspark I have FF on my phone, but I kind of like the Android browser for looking up phone numbers and addresses since it lets me tap and enter the info into my navigation or dialer. I wonde3r if FF does that on Android
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:46:21 UTC from web-
@pony My iPad does something similar with dates and its calendar app. Which lead to me getting a bunch of stupid reminders to make chocolate pudding at 4AM and the like because I couldn't figure out why they were links.
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@ceruleanspark 4 AM pudding reminders are absolutely CRUCIAL.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:53:26 UTC from web-
@pony Even my mother knows about chocolate pudding.
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@ceruleanspark xD
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:58:44 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark Ah that makes sense, he's not just being an apples. I believe Google should come to it's senses relatively quickly, although does IE even receive regular updates? Or is it just in full versions that changes come? I had to teach my mum how to use the app store and she knows how to download games but I don't think a new browser is something she would ever consider so it's not just people who can't use it, people won't even think to get a better browser since their current one does everything they want it to (AKA it can go on Google)
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:46:49 UTC from web-
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:47:42 UTC from web
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@scoot @ceruleanspark IE doen't even support HTML5, or has that been changed?
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:50:21 UTC from web-
@mrdragon Apparently. Who knew, right?
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@ceruleanspark @scoot Sweet jesus.. what about CSS 3? Or whatever the new one is called
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:53:05 UTC from web-
@mrdragon Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview 1 1.9.7745.6019 2010-03-16[19] 55/100[20] Support for CSS3 and SVG and a new JavaScript engine called Chakra.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:53:44 UTC from web-
@scoot Chakaron!
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:54:11 UTC from web
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Redashing Red because my picture is just weird without context
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 15:02:01 UTC from web
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@scoot I don't know if IE even supports local storage to be honest. I just tend to assume that if the feature is young enough to still be relevant to web developers, IE doesn't support it.
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@ceruleanspark "it’s supported in all modern browsers (Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+, IE 8+, etc.)" I got this off the guy's blog, I guess IE users are screwed too.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:50:50 UTC from web-
@scoot To be honest I kind of lost track of what IE was doing after about IE7.
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@ceruleanspark @mrdragon IE9 definately supports HTML5, I had to write about HTML5 for some college work about web design.
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:52:30 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark oh look it does! I guess the only thing Android browser does better is load quickly
Thursday, 28-Feb-13 14:48:05 UTC from web
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@ceruleanspark I have a strange desire to create a virtual machine just to ruin it... XD
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@scribus It's fun. Try rm -rf * in a VM sometime too. It's entertaining to see how little of the OS you can get by running.
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@ceruleanspark Oh man, I should!
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@scribus use that "Suicide Linux" that randomly deletes a file every time you make typo in the command line for maximum results.
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@ceruleanspark Suicide Linux + tar = goodbye forever
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