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by saghm 645 days ago
Okay, so why wouldn't you be able to whitelist them ahead of time then?
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It just doesn’t make sense to do it ahead of time in such situations. Email client could simply ask if I trust the email before processing the attachment (and some clients do that). Automated pre-processing of attachments is a general risk that doesn’t apply only to calendar.