On Mittwoch, 18. Oktober 2017 13:38:47 CEST Sam Whited wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 18, 2017, at 12:40, Goffi wrote:
> > If we base the debate on devs not really taking care of security (which
> > was
> > the initial issue with XHTML-IM) or path of less resistance, they will
> > most
> > probably just send the raw Markdown to the list, were HTML can be
> > executed.
> 
> It would also require manually unescaping the body first, otherwise
> you'd just get a message that said "<script>".

Wouldn’t any sane XML library handle that un-escaping? Or are we talking about 
doubly-escaped HTML?

> So it now requires manually screwing something up to lead to a security
> issue instead of the default being an issue.
> 
> —Sam
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