Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by Enginerrrd on Saturday October 26, 2019 @11:54AM
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You'd think... but after that story about Microsoft just executing random threatening code it found on someone's computer and allowing it access to the internet, I have to question some of the wisdom these big companies show.
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Re:Facebook crawls links in PDFs you send in Messenger
by ahbyb on Saturday October 26, 2019 @12:03PM
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That's assuming Microsoft didn't do things properly. Who's to say the amount of connections that could be opened, the bandwidth, or the max traffic that could be recv/sent wasn't limited?
Thinking that you can make an HTTP request using this method and that that means you can unleash a DoS is... worth a try, but not something you can take for granted.