Re: security holes in gnome-vfs application list (was Call for file

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

> This has nothing to do with gnome-vfs or its handling of MIME types.
> You have exactly the same problem with any application that opens
> files.  I am pretty sure some day someone will find a terrible bug in
> a GIMP plug-in and exploit it to rm -rf your home directory if your
> image has a particular byte sequence.
> 
> So let's be as paranoid as possible, but not any more paranoid than that.

Which means being sensibly minimalist about the automatic bindings we give
a user by default. Thats the point I was trying to make