Web code weakness allows data **** on PCs

BBC News - Web code weakness allows data **** on PCs

Fill up your hard disk with just a single click - using HTML5 localStorage!

Works in Chrome, Safari (iOS and desktop), Opera and IE. Firefox is immune to this hackery.

Honestly I just like the music... it's just so happy while it is hacking your computer!

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Zartanasaurus

I couldn't see any evidence that it was actually filling my hard drive space, but Chrome did crash as reported on the bug report site after about 2GB.

Asif Dasl

True enough, I can only guess it must be theoretical figure. I can see it being blocked pretty quick if it worked for real. Process Monitor showed a fair bit of activity by IE when I looked at it again but nothing like 1GB every 16 seconds. It got picked up by the BBC which is saying something if it was a hoax.

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