From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Image mode Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:16:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k5yxeg19.fsf@jurta.org> <87iregmafd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <86irefojcc.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86tzxzn0bx.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86ps8nmy95.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <86d54nmve9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <868xfbmthh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170804012 4504 80.91.229.12 (6 Feb 2007 23:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 07 00:20:05 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 1HEZbY-00023g-Bn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:20:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZbY-0000Kq-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:20:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZZ4-0007nv-Og for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZZ4-0007nS-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HEZZ3-0007n7-Mc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HEZZ3-0006G2-Gt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HEZXv-0005ol-Rt; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:16:19 -0500 In-reply-to: <868xfbmthh.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:10:50 +0100) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:66041 Archived-At: But it cannot be the business of Emacs to decide about the trustworthiness of a source. It is the job of the user. Most users don't have any idea how to judge this, any more than I do. It would never occur to us to suspect that displaying an image as an image might do some harm. And even if we did think of the possibility, there is no practical thing we could do about it. If I want to see what the image looks like, what am I going to do except view it? What good does it do me to avoid displaying a image named foo.txt if I don't avoid displaying an image named foo.jpg? In fact, if anything I'm arguing against security warnings; my point is that we cannot reliably protect the user. Believing that a match between contents and file extension should somehow be more trusted is false security. I think so too.