Re: recognizing a file by scanning it

[Jason Rumney]

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.