Its just windows media files that I know of. MPEG files are safe unless its really a windows media file renamed to a .mpg extention. Also, if you are using a non-microsoft player like mplayer for linux, you can play the windows media file and not have it hit the websites. >-- Original Message -- >To: devl at freenetproject.org >From: Ed Onken <edonken at midwest.net> >Subject: Re: [freenet-dev] More Micro$oft insecure crap >Reply-To: devl at freenetproject.org >Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 13:54:52 -0500 > > >I agree, but I would think the warning should explain how--just like you > >explained it. I didn't know windows media files could do that until I read > >it here. > >I can't rememember for sure, but I thought I had an MPEG try to pull up a > >website when I played it. I don't know if that's possible (a standard
>feature of MPEG) or maybe a special feature of whatever player I used--it > >was long ago and I can't remember. Just thought I'd ask in case anybody > >else knows for sure. > >Ed > >At 11:49 AM 09/07/2002 -0700, eric at caffrey.net wrote: >>I don't know if this has been brought up before, but the windows media files >>(*.wm* such as *.wma *.wmv) allow a URL to be automatically accessed by >>the media file. For example, once a movie file starts rolling credits, >>the people who encoded the file can have it open a browser and hit their >>website. >> >>If this hasn't been addressed before, I suggest some time of warning saying >>"You are about to access/download a windows media file. This file could >>compromise your anonymity." >> >>-Eric >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>devl mailing list >>devl at freenetproject.org >>http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > >_______________________________________________ >devl mailing list >devl at freenetproject.org >http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ devl mailing list devl at freenetproject.org http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
