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itstrueitried • yesterday at 11:59 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

    while (true) console.log('this will freeze/crash dev tools')
For more of a "I've been hacked!" effect, load infinite 3D models in Three.js that have millions of vertices each. You get those black boxes where the system has so low RAM it can't even draw the browser window.

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anakaine • today at 12:03 AM

Shall we term this a Denial of Memory attack. Then in order to Contain it we have a ConDoM fix?

LoganDark • today at 12:07 AM

This doesn't even always work unless you log two different messages, because some DevTools will just keep a running count of how many of the same message there has been in a row.

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