From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: recognizing a file by scanning it Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:07:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87od7vr0kt.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <4814ED09.8030707@gnu.org> <87ve2229nd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <48150C03.1010303@gnu.org> <87hcdm6553.fsf@ambire.localdomain> <48158535.6070301@gnu.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209406104 1366 80.91.229.12 (28 Apr 2008 18:08:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:08:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 28 20:08:59 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JqXmV-0004ir-Di for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:08:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqXlo-0007Ay-RV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:08:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqXll-0007As-BF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JqXlk-0007AX-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:08:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52224 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JqXlk-0007AU-Ki for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:08:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.1.11]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JqXlg-00017c-9X; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by mail.uni-ulm.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m3SI7vqq007036; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:07:58 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from localhost (bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de [134.60.41.37]) by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD6213029; Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:07:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Face: 3Phac&+dw=IZHjhua]bp}LH<*p{qzj8u+ 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:96086 Archived-At: On Mon, Apr 28 2008, Jason Rumney wrote: > 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. s/Lars Magnusson/Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen/ ;-) It's not only paranoid, but a security risk itself... ,----[ ] | 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. `---- Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/