[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Fwd: [MPlayer-users] Mplayer exploit?!

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 11:47:13PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> > guarantee for the external dlls, especially the win32 dlls.
> sure.

As far as I'm concerned win32 dlls ARE trojan code so its pointless to
try to protect them from exploits. :)))

> look, we're developing the fastest movie player in the linux world, and not
> the most secure movie player of the world.

IMO it can be fully secured without slowing it down. Using separate
memory maps where we can't afford range checks is the best method I
know for this.

Rich