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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.programming |
| Subject | Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today |
| Date | 2017-04-19 09:38 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 19/04/17 08:16, Richard Heathfield wrote: > On 19/04/17 07:09, jim.j.barlow@gmail.com wrote: >> What would you think when a professional programmer has software that >> produces log files with the filename ending in ".txt" that contain >> bytes with the value of "0"? I contend it is no longer a text file. >> The vendor refused to correct the behavior. > > There is no law requiring files with a ".txt" extension to be text > files. And, when everyone was using ".doc" for program documentation > stored in text files, Microsoft started using the ".doc" extension for > binary files, but I don't recall you complaining about that. > > File extensions are not standardised. Anyone can use any extension for > any purpose. I used an embedded assembler toolchain that used ".txt" for the binary output files. I can't remember the reasoning behind the choice, but there was /some/ excuse for such an annoying choice. > > About ten years ago, I gave someone a bunch of JPEGs and asked him to > turn each one into a PowerPoint slide. He solved this difficult task by > renaming each ".jpg" to ".ppt", and was then appalled to find that for > some bizarre reason this didn't work. > > Never trust a file extension. > Indeed. Windows /does/ trust file extensions, and that has been the source of endless security flaws.
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Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 15:45 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2017-04-11 10:06 +0200
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-11 19:14 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Diesel <me@privacy.net> - 2017-04-13 01:29 +0000
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today "Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> - 2017-04-17 02:45 +0800
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today jim.j.barlow@gmail.com - 2017-04-18 23:09 -0700
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2017-04-19 07:16 +0100
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-04-19 09:38 +0200
Re: There is an ugly Word zero day out there today jim.j.barlow@gmail.com - 2017-04-28 20:34 -0700
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