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Comment by lern_too_spel

3 hours ago

> Nothing will save you here except switching off showing pictures

Or having a trustable image decoder, which is what web browsers actually do. This is a basic requirement that you are proposing to do away with by instead not showing images at all.

> trustable image decoder

This may never exist, since all software have bugs. Instead, you can isolate opening your pictures into a different VM, keeping this VM safe.

> what web browsers actually do

Haven't we seen related vulnerabilities?