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Was this attack genuinely dangerous? Or was it just a social experiment?

• dijit 3y ago
  That attack has the possibility of being incredibly dangerous. The fact that they released the updated font to the public means everyone using that font became vulnerable if they had a similar lack of bounds checking inside the pdf reader (which is incredibly likely).
  • GrumpySloth 3y ago
    Sure. I’m just wondering about the attacker’s intentions. Whether they were malicious or merely misguided.
    • bagels 3y ago
      Someone else could make a different pdf with a different payload, so even if that specific person just wanted to jailbreak their own phone, others could do bad things with it.
• deleted 3y ago
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