Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
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#2I wonder if you could torment diabetics or obese people by spamming them offers to low priced treats.
If gif images are this dangerous to you, I think it falls on the person to take precautions with their browser to prevent gifs from autoplaying.
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#3I wonder if you could torment diabetics or obese people by spamming them offers to low priced treats. If gif images are this dangerous to you, I think it falls on the person to take precautions with their browser to prevent gifs from autoplaying.
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#4What if the accessibility settings let you set a maximum framerate for automatically playing moving image content in Safari?
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#5Wow, this is equivalent to sending someone a mail "bomb" that doesn't explode but electrocutes them severely.
I hope the offender ends up with a reasonable length prison sentence. There's a clear line, and the intentional infliction of physical harm is well beyond it.
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#6What if the accessibility settings let you set a maximum framerate for automatically playing moving image content in Safari?
Then the attacker can just pad the malicious content with something benign and then surprise you while watching
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#7What if the accessibility settings let you set a maximum framerate for automatically playing moving image content in Safari?
There are a number of potential ways to mitigate this type of attack, what concerns me more is the person/people that do this.
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#8Twitter has a prominent checkbox in the setting allowing you to turn off autoplaying of videos and GIFs. Given that most are not epileptic, and that Eichenwald is, he should have had the mindfulness to check whether the platform could be adapted to his needs.
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#9What if the accessibility settings let you set a maximum framerate for automatically playing moving image content in Safari?
I'm looking at http://www.epilepsy.com/learn/triggers-seizures/photosensiti..., and it seems it's not just the framerate that matters. In particular, 5 to 30 frames per second might be enough, and it depends on the actual image contents. It also makes it sound like static images might also be triggers.
Re: Malicious tweet gives journalist Kurt Eichenwald an epileptic seizure
#10Twitter has a prominent checkbox in the setting allowing you to turn off autoplaying of videos and GIFs. Given that most are not epileptic, and that Eichenwald is, he should have had the mindfulness to check whether the platform could be adapted to his needs.
You are implying that it is Eichenwald's fault and the attacker should be exonerated. Right?