From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: Reiner Steib <Reiner.Steib@gmx.de>, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, juri@jurta.org, cyd@MIT.EDU, miles@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Image mode
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:53:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r6t3sgjl.fsf@quimbies.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1HEE0j-0004T3-Rc@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon\, 05 Feb 2007 19\:16\:37 -0500")
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> In contrast, if someone sends me a JPEG image in an email, Gnus
> will happily show it to me without asking (at least with the
> settings I'm using). So where's the protection in that case?
>
> Should we consider that a bug in Gnus?
> (I don't know what the answer is.)
Switching image display off in a mail reader is like switching it off
in a web browser. Does Firefox query the user before displaying an
image? "Warning! The web page you're browsing contains an image!
Image libraries are sometimes prone to buffer overflows! Do you
really wish to expose yourself to this danger!!1!?"
Warning users about something that's almost certainly not dangerous is
a huge security risk in itself, because you're inuring the users to
warnings. The user will answer "Yeah, whatever" when being bothered
with these things, and then when Emacs asks the user "Are you sure you
wish to do an rm -rf?" (or whatever the genuinely dangerous thing it
is), they won't bother to read the warning.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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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
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 [this message]
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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