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Re: recognizing a file by scanning it
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: recognizing a file by scanning it |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:07:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/22.2.50 (gnu/linux) |
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...
,----[ <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/66004> ]
| 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.
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Bye, Reiner.
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