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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgtoOpen Source@lemmy.mlIntroducing Lemvotes
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    11 hours ago

    This is what needs discussion. It is this tool which will lead to harassment due to the way someone votes.

    wrong. voting users are already visible through other services, like mbin. and the information is already there, those who are really interested are already scraping it, this just makes it more accessible and also serves as an eye opener











  • pdf files can contain javascript code that can run when it is opened. but when using complex formats (I think almost all video files, pdfs), it can happen that the software that understands it makes mistakes when reading it and making sense of it, and an attacker tries to make use of this to trick your software into doing something that wasn’t intended by its creator. this is how it can happen that an mp4 file (or mkv, others, …) cannot contain executable code (according to specification), and yet it can

    in the case of pdf files, bundled fonts may be another source of problems