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The classic font size exploit (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by mac@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It very well might be a real exploit. Lemmy was briefly taken down by an XS attack using the emoji library... so who knows, maybe a 3000% smiley face is all that is needed

[–] Fogle@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago

I think there a lot of phone scammers that use font size to hide all the shit they're doing. Like they make shit so small so that the old people can't see anything