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Date:      Fri, 24 Feb 2006 11:01:50 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        sdfas sadffa <david.englund@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Suggestions
Message-ID:  <C024981E.8CC9%ceri@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060224033113.27821.qmail@web34513.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

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On 24/2/06 03:31, "sdfas sadffa" <david.englund@yahoo.com> wrote:

>  
>  
> freebsd.org is using .ico as icon.
> 
> Security considerations :
> This file format can only contain one or more images. The file format
> itself may contain malformed headers (especially the image-offset pointer)
> which may cause unexpected problems in poorly written software.

I don't get it - ours doesn't contain malformed headers (to my knowledge),
so I'm not 100% sure what the motivation would be.

If the format is encumbered, on the other hand, then I'd understand.  If it
actually works, of course :)

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                      -- Moliere






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