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IMO not so much. Just assume all files are malicious unless accompanied by metadata saying otherwise. That is pretty much the status quo already. Except we hav
by extropy 6y ago
IMO not so much. Just assume all files are malicious unless accompanied by metadata saying otherwise. That is pretty much the status quo already.
Except we have some grandfathered file types that are implicitly trusted.
- Jabbles 6y agoIn the article, the remote file's contents were not malicious, but merely trying to access it was. That would require a very different security posture to "assume all files are malicious".
- DyslexicAtheist 6y ago> the remote file's contents were not malicious until ... one day ... they are!
- boomlinde 6y agoThe remote file is only one of two files in the story.
- Lucasoato 6y agoAnd what about malicious metadata?