2010/3/16 Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se>:
> We discussed for a long time why OpenOffice documents
> can't be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons because the
> ZIP encoding wasn't safe and could explode in the
> face of the user. Well, maybe OGG isn't safe either?
>
> Should we just ban video all together?
>
There's a difference between an OGG not playing on your browser and an
OpenOffice file really being a .jar with malicious Java code. It's not
so much about stuff exploding in the user's face as it is about stuff
compromising the user's security.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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