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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My guess is it was an actual gif that exploited some flaw in how the OS handled gifs and thus was able to execute code.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

That would make sense. Thanks for coming up with an explanation. I did wonder when I thought about this earlier.