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From: | Jason Rumney |
Subject: | Re: recognizing a file by scanning it |
Date: | Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:05:09 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) |
Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
() Jason Rumney <address@hidden> () Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:28:03 +0100 The image entries were all dropped completely because of the supposed security issues. Searching gmane, i see a huge list of postings w/ the subject "Image mode". Is that what you are referring to? A brief read (handful of pages) gives me the impression that the issue there is the security of image libraries (libpng, etc). Am i missing something?
Yes, that was the issue. Rereading that thread and others on the subject, it seems that RMS's solution was different than I remembered - 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.
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