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		lol768 on March 15, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox 111.0 enabled Origin private file system a... So any sufficiently motivated/funded malicious actor who can register a whole bundle of domains can use up 50% of the entire free space on my disk? Am I getting this right? Is the only defense against this the requirement for per-origin permission to be granted?

roca on March 15, 2023 [–]

That's been true for over a decade. Hasn't happened in the wild though AFAIK. I don't think there's an incentive for anyone to do this.

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