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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: juri@jurta.org, lekktu@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Image mode
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:41:07 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87odo64zxo.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HEZX1-0005dN-OF@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Tue\, 06 Feb 2007 18\:15\:23 -0500")

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     The consensus seems to be that the way to handle the (hypothetical)
>     risk of security holes due to image library bugs is to patch the image
>     libraries if such bugs are found, NOT to hobble image display in
>     programs that use them.
>
> Can you say where you've seen this concensus affirmed?
> Who is it a consensus among?  I want to get some idea of
> how much we can trust their judgment.

It is an implicit conclusion, drawn from the fact that no other
graphical program prompts users before displaying images.

Security conscious (or paranoid) users can easily disable image
support in Emacs, so what's the problem?

  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-06 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 164+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-04 22:52 Image mode Juri Linkov
2007-02-04 23:40 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05  1:25   ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05  9:03     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05  9:16       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05  9:28         ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05  9:37           ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 11:12           ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06  0:16       ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06  0:25         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06  1:37         ` Drew Adams
2007-02-06  7:18           ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06 11:09           ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2007-02-06  0:15     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06  0:29       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-06  4:56         ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-06 23:15           ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 23:41             ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2007-02-06 23:55               ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2007-02-05  7:13   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05  9:06     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-07 19:21   ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-07 19:43     ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-07 21:08       ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-07 21:21         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-07 21:35         ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-07 23:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-08  9:33       ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-08 16:38         ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-08 16:55           ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-08 18:36             ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-07 22:55     ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-07 23:27     ` Juri Linkov
2007-02-08  9:30     ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-08 15:23       ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05  1:40 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05  4:21   ` Miles Bader
2007-02-05 10:58     ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-05 11:02       ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-05 11:16         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 11:26           ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 11:39             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 11:48               ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 12:00                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 12:08                   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 12:16                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 19:00                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-06  0:16             ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06  0:32               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-06 23:14                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06  7:16               ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 12:46           ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-05 12:57             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 12:58               ` David Kastrup
2007-02-05 14:47               ` Mathias Dahl
2007-02-05 14:54                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 17:08                   ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 18:35                     ` Mathias Dahl
2007-02-05 18:35                     ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-05 19:06                       ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 19:14                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 19:26                           ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 19:28                           ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 19:51                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 20:12                               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-05 20:14                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 20:13                               ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 20:21                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 20:33                                   ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 21:25                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 21:30                                       ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 22:25                                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 23:50                                           ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-06  0:17                                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06  7:06                                               ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06  8:30                                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06  8:42                                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06  9:06                                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06  9:27                                                       ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06  9:43                                                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06 10:29                                                           ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06 10:57                                                             ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06 11:10                                                               ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06 11:42                                                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06 11:48                                                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06 12:02                                                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06 23:16                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-07  0:06                                                                   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-07 19:41                                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-07 19:41                                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-07 16:10                                                                   ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-09 17:24                                                                     ` Chris Moore
2007-02-09 18:14                                                                       ` Stuart D. Herring
2007-02-09 18:22                                                                       ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-12  4:55                                                                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-13  6:01                                                                       ` Chris Moore
2007-02-13 23:36                                                                         ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 23:16                                                             ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 23:47                                                               ` David Kastrup
2007-02-07 19:41                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06  1:46                                             ` Miles Bader
2007-02-06 11:53                                             ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2007-02-06 15:15                                             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-06 15:46                                               ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-06 16:08                                                 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-06 16:58                                                   ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-06 17:10                                                     ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-06 23:51                                                       ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-07  0:03                                                         ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-07  0:41                                                           ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-05 20:24                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 20:36                                   ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 20:20                               ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 20:33                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-06 17:08                               ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 17:56                                 ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-07  1:37                                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-07  1:42                                     ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-07  7:15                                       ` David Kastrup
2007-02-07  8:09                                         ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-07 19:41                                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 17:08                             ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 23:46                               ` Chris Moore
2007-02-06 23:58                                 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-07 16:59                                   ` Chris Moore
2007-02-08  0:52                                     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-09 17:17                                       ` Chris Moore
2007-02-10  9:51                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-05 19:06                       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 21:27                     ` Juri Linkov
2007-02-06 11:42                     ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2007-02-05 19:07               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-06  9:19                 ` Jason Rumney
2007-02-06  9:35                   ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06  9:46                     ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-06 10:21                   ` Mathias Dahl
2007-02-06 16:50                     ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-05 21:28               ` Juri Linkov
2007-02-05 21:35                 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-02-05 21:38                 ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 22:02                   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-06 17:09                   ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-05 11:15       ` Juanma Barranquero
2007-02-05 21:45         ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-05 21:53           ` Chris Moore
2007-02-05 12:22       ` Miles Bader
     [not found]       ` <E1HEE0j-0004T3-Rc@fencepost.gnu.org>
2007-02-06  7:20         ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06 23:15           ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 10:53         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2007-02-06 23:16           ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 12:26         ` Kim F. Storm
2007-02-06 12:46           ` David Kastrup
2007-02-06 16:48             ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-05 18:56   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-05 19:08     ` Chong Yidong
2007-02-05 19:28       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-02-05 21:12     ` Chris Moore
2007-02-05 21:28     ` Juri Linkov
2007-02-06 11:09   ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2007-02-05 19:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-05 21:25   ` Chris Moore
2007-02-06 17:09     ` Richard Stallman
2007-02-06 22:54       ` David Kastrup
2007-02-07  1:37         ` Richard Stallman

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