HTML5 exploit

Drone · Mar 1, 2013

Web developer Feross Aboukhadijeh created FillDisk.com in order to demonstrate the exploit in HTML5. The Web Storage standard used in HTML5 allows any website to place large amounts of data on your computer’s drive, which could result in a lot of frustration as the user will probably continually wonder why their hard drives are completely out of disk space.

Web browsers have the ability to limit just how much space websites can dump onto your hard drive, with Mozilla Firefox being able to intelligently know how much a website should be loading onto the hard disk at a time. Other browsers, such as Chrome, IE, Safari and Opera currently have no storage limits, although we hope now that this exploit has been publicized, the developers of these web browsers would look into patching their software so our computer hard disks can stay from being clogged up with junk data.

Sounds nasty

1freedude · Mar 1, 2013

Firefox is king again!

Krazy Owl · Mar 2, 2013

What about Google chrome compared to firefox vs explorer.... is google chrome safe too ?

ste2425 · Mar 2, 2013

Krazy Owl said:
is google chrome safe too ?

Other browsers, such as Chrome, IE, Safari and Opera currently have no storage limits.

Apparently just the same as IE and the others as far as dumping junk on your HDD

syeef · Mar 2, 2013

Why would anyone dump data from their website? and loose bandwidth... its not free you know...

ste2425 · Mar 2, 2013

Maybe who ever it is that developed HTML 5 thought the same and that's why it got overlooked?

partyboy75 · Mar 3, 2013

Krazy Owl said:
is google chrome safe too ?

Chrome is unsafe under any configuration because it is legal spyware by Google. Compare Chrome to SRWare Iron.

Firefox had storage limits from beginning.

xvi · Mar 3, 2013

The HTML5 standard DOES NOT allow this. The fault isn't with HTML5, the fault is with IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and Firefox for not implementing it properly.

syeef said:
Why would anyone dump data from their website? and loose bandwidth... its not free you know...

They're probably pulling it from cache.

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