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:floppy_disk: Masterful trolling with HTML5 localStorage

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2013-02-28 · latest 2013-03-04

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  1. …lots of comments in the source code so that people could check it out and learn how it works: https://github.com/feross/filldisk.js
    comment by feross · 2013-02-28 · in HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks
  2. Some analysis of how this works, 1. The main page contains an iframe which serves this script: https://github.com/feross/filldisk.js/blob/master/static/fra... 2. This script writes a 2,500,000-length string to local storage, which should…
    comment by tantalor · 2013-02-28 · in HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks