Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users

Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by EpicEng on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:48PM (#14412436)

So open source always gets a free pass? "You should be doing X as what you're doing represents a security threat." "Well, submit a patch then neener neener."

C'mon.

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Re:Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time U... by riffraff on Thursday May 25, 2017 @02:11PM (#14419007)

they don't, it's just that the statement "there is no reason for this software not to have a sandbox" is wrong, because, well, there are many reasons.

A correct statement might have been "there is no technical reason that prevents sandboxing, given a ton of work".

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