Re: Image mode

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> That is an interesting point.  Is it safe for firefox, and for eog or
> qiv, to display a file without checking it?  If so, why in practice is
> it safe?
>
> The answer can't be "Because people check every JPG file before they
> try to display it using eog or qiv or firefox."  I don't -- I would
> not know how.  And I am sure most other users would not know how to
> check.
>
> So what is it in practice that prevents this from being a common way
> for viruses to be introduced?


That the image libraries are updated. Firefox updates itself or tells 
the user push a button to update Firefox whenever the authors of Firefox 
finds and fixes a security bug.