> Perhaps the only, quite unusual, exception is the .html file name extension for HTML files
Sounds like he has been missing out on Microsoft Office since at least 2007, though I must say I can only applaud that fact.
More seriously, the article might as well have ranted about files having any extension at all. Magic mime is much more reliable and versatile, not to mention all the viruses using .jpg.exe extensions.
Heh, that too. I keep saying "first thing I do when" because there's so much to do when installing Windows even if it's not for myself (nowadays Windows installs are, luckily, never for myself), but it really is one of the first things.
The "hide known file extensions" default option should have been around less than a month before someone realize, "this is very insecure". The fact that it's been around for over a decade is just lame.
Sounds like he has been missing out on Microsoft Office since at least 2007, though I must say I can only applaud that fact.
More seriously, the article might as well have ranted about files having any extension at all. Magic mime is much more reliable and versatile, not to mention all the viruses using .jpg.exe extensions.