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This seems utterly pointless to worry about. You're fucked either way if you trust VLC.

• bloudermilk 6mo ago
  Care to elaborate?
  • bzzzt 6mo ago
    Look at the supported formats lists. It includes so many parsers, mostly written in C, which means there probably are a few dozen ways to exploit the player.
  • ohhman11 6mo ago
    It's downright trivial to hide a backdoor in a codebase like this.
    • Cthulhu_ 6mo ago
      Can you tell us about any prior or active incidents like that though? That is, I'm calling you out for fearmongering, for a possible what-if, but given how popular VLC is you'd think it would've happened / is actively happening already. And there is no evidence for that.