[vlc-devel] [LATTE] Privacy, what might that mean?

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

Small look at the code, this should not happen. Unless VLC ends up in
putting the file location in title/name/artist field (!).

Pierre.

2009/5/12 Rémi Denis-Courmont <rem at videolan.org>:
>        Hello,
>
> I realized today that VLC sends complete media locations to search engines via
> the meta stuff. Sorry for the rudeness but...
> __        ___   _    _  _____   _____ _   _ _____   _____ _   _  ____ _  __
> \ \      / / | | |  / \|_   _| |_   _| | | | ____| |  ___| | | |/ ___| |/ /
>  \ \ /\ / /| |_| | / _ \ | |     | | | |_| |  _|   | |_  | | | | |   | ' /
>  \ V  V / |  _  |/ ___ \| |     | | |  _  | |___  |  _| | |_| | |___| . \
>   \_/\_/  |_| |_/_/   \_\_|     |_| |_| |_|_____| |_|    \___/ \____|_|\_\
>
> Do I need to remind someone that the piece of software known as VLC media
> player is a fun but _serious_ development project used by millions?
>
> Parsing all kind of harmful parameters from HTTP playlists was silly. Fetching
> software updates without any security checks was reckless (IIRC, Mozilla did
> the same mistake).
>
> But, come on! That beats everything. How can someone write code without even
> remotely THINKING about CONSEQUENCES? This is not a computer security problem,
> this is common sense.
>
> Needless to say, I am very pissed off, as one of many victimized users.
>
> --
> Rémi Denis-Courmont
> http://git.remlab.net/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=vlc-courmisch.git;a=summary
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