> 1. Simpler formats for file representation and data interchange. When someone tries to add an extra bitfield option, say no. When they keep trying, get a wooden stick with "no" written on it. Part of the disease of modern computing is bloated specs.
How is creating new image formats and getting the entire Web to adopt them easier than making more secure image decoders?
It's especially irrelevant to this series of vulnerabilities, since they work by getting ImageMagick to parse less popular image formats. Inventing new ones won't do anything to mitigate these flaws.
> if it was going to, it already would have (and this is from someone already writing Rust code).
The 'Magick' in this case is less welcome when your system is pwned. Maybe less magic formats and tools will have, I don't know, less vectors for compromise.
We had better options before and after C, yet here we are. Not to piss on Rust's parade, but it may prove not to be the white knight of code hoped for. And I like Rust - I am probably just less emotionally clouded in my view point.
How is creating new image formats and getting the entire Web to adopt them easier than making more secure image decoders?
It's especially irrelevant to this series of vulnerabilities, since they work by getting ImageMagick to parse less popular image formats. Inventing new ones won't do anything to mitigate these flaws.
> if it was going to, it already would have (and this is from someone already writing Rust code).
I don't understand what this is trying to imply.