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Comment by computerbuster

5 hours ago

Looking forward to a future where we can arbitrarily DoS anyone with a PDF that computes massive swaths of prime numbers.

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computerbuster

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eviks  4 hours ago

Can't that future adopt basic resource / complexity limits to defuse the DOS bomb?

eru  2 hours ago

PDFs can already do arbitrary computation. You can even play tetris in them.

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