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It's a security concern. We don't want to load images from a potentially malicious site.
Sk8eM dUb
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You could just put it in the options tab for which sites you want to auto-load
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You mean like a browser exploit in image? How do you know that imgur can catch those? What about zero-day. Pretty rare phenomenon & many sites show any img. Suppose could be a UI pref.
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There are a number of issues, e.g. SSL. Even if we require https, sites hosting images could have invalid certs.
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Tried researching exploits/vulns based on imgs with external sources. Not really finding anything that serious or that hasn't been fixed. Will look into more.
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It doesn't need to be an exploit, preventing broken SSL is enough reason not to do it. Also, external content can be used to track memo users.
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You can't implement a system to block broken SSL requests from rendering images to display? Not to sound anti-privacy, but there are plenty of other ways to track Memo users already.
Simon Van Gelder
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My test vector was spoofing the return header and sending back something that's not an image.