Browser makers open local storage hole in HTML5

[Gary]

A slip-up in the implementation of HTML5 on Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer can be exploited to fill users' hard drives, according to a 22-year-old Web developer from Stanford. The Latest versions of Firefox are immune to this.

Feross Aboukhadijeh has posted a proof-of-concept of the exploit.

Aboukhadijeh claims the proof-of-concept code will fill 1 GB every 16 seconds on a Macbook Pro Retina's solid state drive.

Safari on iOS and Desktop is open to the same 'exploit'

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/28/html_5_implementation_bug_drive_filler/

[Simon]

Glad to see it didn't affect decent browsers. 

[Gary]

Glad to see it didn't affect decent browsers. 

[Gary]

Imagine 1TB or Gangnam style though