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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by tptacek on Friday January 10, 2014 @02:04PM (#7038628)
In other words, you're "only" dealing with a bug that would allow anything you downloaded from BitTorrent to own up your personal account on your computer. :)

(I know you know that, I'm just spelling it out for people).

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Re:FFmpeg and a thousand fixes by jbk on Friday January 10, 2014 @04:53PM (#7039764)
Yep, and that's quite dangerous.

Especially since you can see often fake videos circulate around, that tell you to download a special software or codec to play them (with malware, of course). WMP also had a scripting/runtime system that could be abused greatly.

Be careful what you download :)

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