The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
auberon.xyz40 points by auberonedu 4 hours ago
40 points by auberonedu 4 hours ago
Is this why Oregon Trail Deluxe freezes on Mac?
Remember when that unicode string nuked iOS 7 and you could set it as your SSID to get them stuck in a loop? good times.
Zero impact on iOS 27.
Amazing!
I encountered the same type of death freeze when trying (and failing) to run models in browser tabs, but didn't spend much time trying to understand how severe it is.
Hope they don't disable WebGPU...
Maybe that would be better than a meltdown . . .
The code is just an infinite loop counter. You can cause all kinds of Safari issues with an infinite loop in JavaScript too, which is sure annoying when trying to figure out large codebases. There was a student in Japan who showed that you could do this trivially and they were arrested.
Usually you can't freeze the whole system UI with an infinite counter though. I'm pretty sure normal JS browser processes are not supposed to be able to do that.