Re: today's high-publicity security issue

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On Fri, 2016-12-16 at 14:38 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Doesn't it mitigate the completely drive-by attack via Chrome and
> tracker metadata parsing, though? You can still exploit it, but not
> so
> seamlessly...right?

I think the attacker would win if the user ever visits his downloads
directory in nautilus (triggering the thumbnailer) before deleting the
file some other way. Still pretty bad.
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