RE: Web Fonts

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Paul Nelson (ATC) wrote:
>
> Digging into a compressed file to get one or more of fonts is a security 
> issue that should be avoided.

Could you expand on this? Since Mozilla's entire application deployment, 
user interface, internationalisation, and plugin infrastructure is based 
on digging into compressed files, it would be most helpful to know what 
security issues arise from such designs.

Thanks,
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Received on Thursday, 24 August 2006 10:45:45 UTC