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I think they do it to make a point, they don't care about stuff being pretty, they care about it being sane and secure. If the only thing you complain about is
by snuxoll 11y ago
I think they do it to make a point, they don't care about stuff being pretty, they care about it being sane and secure. If the only thing you complain about is a typeface then maybe they're doing their job right :)
- cbd1984 11y agoGiven that fonts are attack vectors, why style text at all?
- snuxoll 11y agoThe consideration of fonts as attack vectors is highly overplayed - the bytecode allowed in TTF in OTF fonts is pretty limited, while mistakes have certainly been made in FreeType and other implementations it's no worse than the JavaScript sandbox most people are already relying on in their browsers.
- DonHopkins 11y agoThere are some fonts you should never install, even if they look innocuous: http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/134412/the_trojan_horse.font http://fontmeme.com/freefonts/134412/the_trojan_horse.font And other fonts are so beautiful that merely looking at them can cause harm: http://re-type.com/notaweblog/2013/03/06/new-font-from-retype-medusa/ http://re-type.com/notaweblog/2013/03/06/new-font-from-retyp...
- stock_toaster 11y agoThey aren't actually embedding the font, they are just setting a style in the css to use a particular system font, if present.
- Navarr 11y agoYou could say that - but since the font is such a large "nuisance" it serves as a distraction vector.