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Are Hotlinked Images Now a Liability?

Posted by Cliff on from the watch-out-for-evil-avatars dept.

ConcernedImage asks: "I work for a company that has a strong online community, with a full set of message boards that currently allow external image hotlinking. With the new WMF exploit out there, all it takes is one user to link to a bad image, and suddenly it's -our- web site inflicting the computers of others (at least, as far as our users are concerned). Is allowing hotlinked images a legal liability now? What steps are other online communities taking to protect themselves and their users against this?"

2 of 57 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I see three options: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Disable external image linking.

    Jesus, if everybody did that then the sites would be as boring as Slashdot. Take Fark for instance, 50% of the greatness of that site is the humorous images posted in comments. Slashdot USED to have those as well before people started abusing it and the moderators were too lazy to simply delete the offending posts like Fark does.

  2. Patch is out there. by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft released a patch for this. Try again, Slashdot.

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