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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?"

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  1. Hotlinked images always were a liability by bartjan · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hotlinks always were a liability, or at least have been from the moment the goatse domain was registered...