I would like to request the admins of this forum to please uncensor jpg pictures. It's extremely annoying to have them blocked, and the security risk is minimal - and not lessened because of this censor. Reasons why one would want jpg images back:

 

 

 

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  [*:2q806u48]The lack of being able to use jpg images on these forums is, as a first, annoying. Anyone posting pictures is now (supposed to be) confined to using png's or gifs (seeing as bmp's don't work). Now, to ban bmp's was a fair thing - they eat up bandwidth a lot worse than the other images. To ban jpg, a type of image with excellent compression, and just about the only type of image most current Digital Camera's will save pictures as*, is an abnormal and annoying limitation to the number of choices for image compression one used to have. People without tech knowledge or better programs like Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop or Gimp are now even confined to using gif's, as, by default, MS paint does not offer png's as an option for saving.
   
   
   
  *Yes, I'm aware of TIFF's, but most camera's in the consumer price range can't save pictures this way - the format is usually only present in camera's in the higher price classes.
   
   
   
  [*:2q806u48]Secondly, the way they are censored means that true wrongdoers will be able to use them *anyway*, since the extension (which is censored) has nothing to do with the picture type. So, I could save my image as a jpg, but with a .png extension, and have it work here, without too much work. That also means that this censor does not prevent anyone from getting a keylogger - people should take responsibility for their own security, which means they should keep windows up to date. The original jpeg exploit dates back to september 2004 - which means users have had 8 months to update their installations. If they haven't done so, not even after the repeated warnings on the announcement boards, it is not the fault of TIF. Users should learn to use their own machines securely - they should not have to rely on impotent censors on their favourite forum.
   
   
   
  [*:2q806u48]Some 'unknown exploit' which might be around is a fairly bad point seeing as the major security watchdogs (secunia and whatnot) do not have any reported (new, unpatched) vulnerabilities concerning these kind of things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enough ranting - if the admins of this forum deem that I'm incorrect, then I would like to request 2 things (before locking/deleting this post, which will undoubtedly happen in that case... ahem. I won't waste my breath complaining about that, here, I guess)

 

 

 

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  [*:2q806u48]Give me a reason, and preferably a good one. The ones given in the original announcements are fairly bogus (see above) IMHO.
   
   
   
  [*:2q806u48]Please, please, please, add a note to the announcement to help the newbie computer user use png correctly. I'm getting sick of all the paint images I'm seeing - IrfanView is a very good, free image recoder / resizing tool. It can handle png, and many, many more formats without problems. Adding a note about it in the announcement would greatly help people who are now depending on MS paint and have to convert their images to GIF... (seeing as GIF conversion in Paint sucks, that's not a whole lot of comfort either way)

Yay for looking like a fool - sort of. According to *cough* one of the admins *cough* jpgs are no longer censored. However, there is no announcement that this is the case - which would be nice (that's a hint, by the way, for any admin who reads this - and a big hint at that).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyhow, apart from that, unlocking this thread would be appreciated in that case.

Hoorah!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I too have contacted the admins regarding this, although I never recieved a reply :-?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

jpg's were unbanned a few days ago ;) but shhhhhhh

jpg's were unbanned a few days ago ;) but shhhhhhh

 

 

 

Yeah I was quite getting used to seeing pics that didn't work in threads and in people's sigs :P

 

 

 

Having the jpgs back is good though :) Lets hope we don't have to do it again.

I was getting very annoyed at people posting 1024x768 full colour pngs though. lol

 

 

 

*cough* 1.5megs a pic *cough*

Locking this since the filetype in question has been uncensored.