From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: C file recoginzed as image file Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:40:37 +0900 Message-ID: <87mz4sx16i.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168317081 7093 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2007 04:31:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 04:31:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chris Moore , c.a.rendle@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, lekktu@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 09 05:31:15 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 1H48dj-0003HZ-JU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:31:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H48di-0005su-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:31:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H48dI-0005dj-Ls for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:30:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H48dH-0005cB-Ex for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:30:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H48dH-0005bp-7g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:30:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [130.158.97.223] (helo=mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H48dF-00029W-CQ; Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:30:41 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps01.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 383CF1535AE; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:30:40 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 14C611A2D65; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 13:40:38 +0900 (JST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta27) "fiddleheads" (+CVS-20060716) XEmacs Lucid 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:65042 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > In nearly all cases, the result of displaying an image file is an > image on your screen. [...] Please don't assume that the unlikely > case is the only case. Please consider that the probability that you describe above is likely the wrong probability for this purpose. The right one is the cumulative probability that one of many images displayed over the period of use of Emacs will realize the threat. This probability is evidently distressingly large in the proprietary[1] Windows world. It is probably much smaller for Emacs users (but you'd need to study their usage patterns in the light of the threat vectors to be sure). Footnotes: [1] Ie, people who use proprietary software almost exclusively, as opposed to those who use free software except where employer demands force them to use proprietary software.