From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
To: Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>
Cc: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recognizing a file by scanning it
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:05:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48158535.6070301@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hcdm6553.fsf@ambire.localdomain>
Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
> () Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:28:03 +0100
>
> The image entries were all dropped completely because of the
> supposed security issues.
>
> Searching gmane, i see a huge list of postings w/ the subject
> "Image mode". Is that what you are referring to?
>
> A brief read (handful of pages) gives me the impression that the
> issue there is the security of image libraries (libpng, etc). Am
> i missing something?
>
Yes, that was the issue. Rereading that thread and others on the
subject, it seems that RMS's solution was different than I remembered -
he made image-mode prompt the user by default in all cases, and it was
later restored when Lars Magnusson convinced him that no other
application was this paranoid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-28 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-27 11:36 recognizing a file by scanning it Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-27 21:06 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2008-04-28 3:02 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-28 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-27 21:15 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-27 22:52 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-27 23:28 ` Jason Rumney
2008-04-28 3:16 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2008-04-28 8:05 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2008-04-28 18:07 ` Reiner Steib
2008-04-28 18:13 ` Jason Rumney
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