With their announcement that QuickTime on Windows opens up vulnerabilities to systems, US homeland security has created some noise in our industry.
Following that announcement some sites picked it up and recommend to uninstall QuickTime on Windows for good.
VERGE and GIZMODO.
In regards to ARRI's cameras that bears some issues for Windows users/ProRes shooters.
E.g. if you are using Adobe Software day-in and day-out, you won't be able to work with ProRes files anymore.
But doing some further reading it turns out that the threat is not in all our systems, it is only right on the door-step.
So no need to let it in...
Over at Forbes, there's an Interview with Cris Thomas (Strategist for Tenable Network Security) on page 2 he states:
In a nutshell, we should stick to the warnings of our parents: "Don't download (and open) files from sources you don't know".“Since the current version of Quicktime for Windows 7.7.9 removed the browser plugin anyway there is no way for an attack to automatically compromise a system with a simple drive-by exploit. The attacker would have to convince a victim to download a specially crafted file and then get them to open it in Quicktime.”
If you already uninstalled QuickTime on Windows but need to look at the new clips coming in, we found Telestream's Switch being a reliable companion (plus it reads the timecode!).
What are your observations? Which systems are you edition on?