overreacting (was: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] uau - svn account removal)

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:03:26AM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 01:26 +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > if such changes are tolerated mplayer will soon be a trojanized application
> > as noone can or will review such changes for malicious code
> 
> You're seriously using the chance that I might intentionally add
> vulnerabilities as a reason?

OF COURSE NOT you but its possible that someone else tries possibly
with a cracked account ...
its a not so unlikely scenario, getting a svn account is easy ...

and mallicious code which is executed every time is way more effective
than some buffer overflow which is dependant various other factors like
gcc, and kernel and of course a video file which exploits it ...

[...]

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