I was about to ask if you had an example of an image directly uploaded to Friendfeed. Then I thought about it. - Jimminy IS Everybody

I'm not sure what the bug is conditional upon, yet, but I've only ever observed this problem in the last few days. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

Thank you! - Meg V. Meg

Ben Golub, you're our only hope. - Micah

I was about to inquire about this, glad I'm not the only one with this problem. - Colette

Help us Obi Ben Golubi. - Laura Norvig from iPhone

I thought nobody is touching the code any more. The content type could not have been changed by its own. - ؛ patrick

This is an intentional change. - Benjamin Golub

Hi Ben. What is the reason behind the change? - Headless Gnad Kicker

It seems broken -- can no longer click on the picture in my FFHound posts to enlarge the image, it just downloads the image instead. (See http://friendfeed.com/zeigen... and click the image.) - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo

Ben, thank you for the quick response. Was the change to cut down on hot-linking? - Micah

It's actually a site security improvement to keep us all safe :) - Benjamin Golub

Ahhh, ixnay ethay executables way. *nodding* - Micah

Heh, and I was thinking about posting a regression bug to Opera. Thank you. - Michael W. May

Well, I threw caution to the wind, so here's a browser extension I wrote to view a full size image in a new tab: http://friendfeed.com/fftools... - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

@glenc, Ben is from FF. Read his comments. - ؛ patrick

While I understand that this is an "intentional change" to "keep us all safe", is there a reference for exactly the problem this is meant to solve is? I'm sure I can make an educated guess, but I'd rather understand it more fully. - Andy Bakun

Still broken... - Mitchell Tsai

#şadaaym - feraye

No one has a reference for exactly the problem this change was meant to solve, for our safety? - Andy Bakun

It really sounds like "It's not a bug, it's a feature" :) - Yusuf Arslan

And I can accept that, if I knew what the feature actually was. - Andy Bakun

Security features. - Jimminy IS Everybody

thanks for explaining this odd behaviour. maybe you should report to..facebook staff - marco barsotti

Marco, Benjamin Golub is the FB Staff that is care taking the FF website. - Me

One solution is to use Opera to browse friendfeed (it leaves you the choice to open the file anyway). And that fits well, a dying social network on a dying browser. - StM

Any clue as to what I can search for to find out what the exact attack we're being protected from is? - Andy Bakun

Andy, and for all we know the attacks could have been observed against Facebook's interface and Ben et al saw that Friendfeed simply had the same vulnerability. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

The care taking of this site by Ben is well appreciated for those who still love this service. - Eric - seven eleven

I remember a while ago someone posted an animated gif which was apparently coming from an external host and my (and some other people's) anti virus system started showing that as a treat. The worse part is that, there are many Iranian activists here and for the Ciber Army of Islamic Republic this was the easiest way to find their IP's. We have chosen FF because it's the most free and secure environment in the net. FF didn't do anything about the spammers, at least this was a good move. - ؛ patrick

Looks like some old images don't need a download any more. - ؛ patrick

What's interesting is it's only for new posts media. All the old posts, prior to the update, still work fine. - Jimminy IS Everybody