From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:21:19 +0100 Message-ID: <45A4317F.6090401@gmail.com> References: <45A2D32A.8020804@gmail.com> <45A3650B.80504@gmail.com> <45A3771B.5070108@gnu.org> <45A38409.9080402@gmail.com> <45A40F63.5070605@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168388494 18784 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2007 00:21:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 00:21:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , c.a.rendle@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 10 01:21:32 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4RDg-00076a-2h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:21:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4RDf-0003MK-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:21:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4RDU-0003M3-Kp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:21:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H4RDT-0003Lj-9L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:21:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H4RDT-0003Lg-2c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:21:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.76.149.213] (helo=ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H4RDQ-0005ie-8a; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:21:16 -0500 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-24.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.24]:64231 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H4RDO-00064v-6u; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:21:14 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: Chris Moore In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0702-0, 2007-01-09), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1H4RDO-00064v-6u. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1H4RDO-00064v-6u 1957f2316d5cefd38a803bd7ae3f1720 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:65095 Archived-At: Chris Moore wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: > >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >>> Who says that Microsoft libraries are more secure than the ones we >>> use? There's no evidence that this is even remotely true. > >> Yes, who said that? > > You said that using the MS libraries would "enhance the security for > the users", which sounds kind of similar. > > But maybe your point is that: > > the risk of using both MS image libraries and free software image > libraries together is greater than the risk of using only MS image > libraries Yes, sort of. That is of course true. But the point I was trying to make is that it is more easy for the users to update the libraries and know what vulnerabilities there are if only MS image libraries are used. This will be better if there is an automatic way of updating gnuwin32 image libraries of course. (If they are updated at the download site.) One of the main troubles with MS libraries has been that it has taken a long time for them to fix the bug sometimes. But lately my impression is that this has improved much. On the other hand has the security threats grown maybe even more. Quick reaction to threats is necessary.