On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:06 AM Henning Follmann <hfollm...@itcfollmann.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 09:27:37AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 08:41:11AM -0400, Henning Follmann wrote:
> >
> > > No multimedia (movies, mp3).
> >
> > Really? MP3? Paranoid much?
>
> Well, maybe.
> OTOH these massive exploits these days were considered very unlikely some
> time ago. And a vectors in remains a vector in, and most likely becomes
> a common attack vector. Your point because it is not widely used _now_,
> it is safe, is just ridiculous.
>

True enough but with the following difference:  By specification, to the
best of my amateur knowledge,
the MP3 format does not permit executable content. Whereas Word and PDF
files do.

-H
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