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Old 03-24-2012, 10:53 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
And then there's also the possibility of people uploading crafted epubs designed to exploit weaknesses in specific readers and cause crashes or worse. Imagine downloading an epub which had been made to crash Nooks, but not Kindles?
I have never seen an ePub crash a reader that passes ePubCheck or FlightCrew. Also, Kindles don't handle ePub so that's not going to fly. So there won't be malicious ePub if the authors ever get to upload ePub directly. That is just silly.
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