On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:44:22 GMT, Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...] >Obviously you can't trust anything code-like that arrives from >strangers. It is an extension of the law Mommy laid down not to take >candy from strangers. > >However, formatted text is not code. Pictures are not code. It is >unfair to tar them with the brush of JavaScript or the goofy things >Outlook does with enclosures. http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS04-028.mspx Summary: a buffer overflow problem in Microsoft's JPEG redering library, used my almost all Windoze email and web clients, would allow an attacker to execute any arbitrary code he wished on your computer simply by tricking you into viewing a doctored JPEG image. Since solved (this problem is _so_ last year, dahling), but it belies your assertion that "pictures are not code." Regards, -=Dave -- Change is inevitable, progress is not. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
