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I have a tech question: how does one make a jpeg picture link viewable as a picture on free republic? For example, if I want to show this jpeg photo of President Reagan and Mrs. Thatcher: http://www.donnamoderna.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/moda/accessori/thatcher/ronald-reagan-e-margaret-thatcher/67684353-1-ita-IT/Ronald-Reagan-e-Margaret-Thatcher.jpg How can I show the photo itself and not just the link? Many thanks in advance to whoever can show me how to do this.

I have a photo that I would like to post. If I understand it correctly, I need to upload the photo somewhere so it can be retrieved by FR. My question is where do people upload photos to? Hopefully, I'm on the right path.

How to put a photo in a message help needed.

We conservatives in Rocklin CA (near Sacramento) are doing a 9/11 rememberance. I would like to get a poster size picture of the towers as the plane hit (gruesome, I know.) I've found it on the internet, but I do not know the technical side of how to make it into a poster. I want to take it to a print shop. Any help would be appreciated.

Security experts have been expecting such images to turn up after Microsoft revealed a weakness in the way Windows handles the popular Jpeg format. Soon after this discovery, a program started circulating online that was written to exploit this bug. The poisoned images were posted to a porn newsgroup at the weekend and were found by Usenet provider Easynews. Early warning Poisoned pictures containing the bug have been widely predicted following the discovery of the Jpeg bug that afflicts more than a dozen Microsoft programs. To fall victim to the poisoned pictures, users must view it using Windows Explorer. VULNERABLE...

* Exploit Name: * ============= * JpegOfDeath.c v0.5 * Description: * ============ * Exploit based on FoToZ exploit but kicks the exploit up * a notch by making it have reverse connectback as well as * bind features that will work with all NT based OS's. * WinNT, WinXP, Win2K, Win2003, etc... Thank you FoToz for * helping get a grip on the situation. I actually had got * bind jpeg exploit working earlier but I could only * trigger from OllyDbg due to the heap dynamically changing... * Greetings: * ========== * FoToZ, Nick DeBaggis, MicroSoft, Anthony Rocha, #romhack...

It was only a matter of time before someone unleashed malware that exploits the JPEG GDI+ vulnerability. Over the last two weeks various people have released proof of concept code in stages. The first code base that consisted of a corrupted JPG image file that caused an application to crash. The second code based was a JPG image that spawned a local command shell with no remote access. Within hours of the second code base released another person claimed to have made the command shell bind to a port for remote access.  Now someone has taken matters to a greater extreme by unleashing...

One of the standard security tactics enterprises apply won't work when defending PCs against threats posed by the image processing flaw found last week in Windows and numerous applications, security experts said Tuesday. The JPEG bug in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, as well as in a host of both Microsoft and non-Microsoft applications, can't be defended by blocking JPEG images at the gateway, said John Pescatore, vice president of Gartner's Internet security group. "You can't simply block against this threat by file extension," said Pescatore, "since hackers could simply rename the file type and Windows would still process...

French military history in a nutshell. 02/24/2003, Volume 008, Issue 23 Editor's Note: The e-mail was drawn from the excellent work of Sid Stafford. You can read his original here: [http://silflayhraka.blogspot.com/2003_01_19_silflayhraka_archive.html#90229835]

Concerning Recent Patent ClaimsConsiderable interest has been expressed in the views of the JPEG committee concerning claims made by Forgent Networks Inc on their web site concerning intellectual property that Forgent have obtained through their acquisition of Compression Labs Inc. They refer specifically to US Patent 4,698,672, which refers amongst other claims to technology which might be applied in run length coding, found in many technologies including the implementations of a baseline version of ISO/IEC 10918-1, commonly referred to as JPEG. The committee has examined these claims briefly, and at present believes that prior art exists in areas in which...

No more JPEGs - ISO to withdraw image standard By Andrew Orlowski in London Posted: 07/23/2002 at 12:09 EST The ISO standards body will take the unprecedented step of withdrawing the JPEG image format as a formal standard if Forgent Networks, a small Texan company, continues to demand royalties on a seventeen-year old patent. The Register has spoken to representatives of both the JPEG committee and Forgent Networks this week. According to Richard Clark, JPEG committee member and JPEG.org webmaster, Forgent's royalty grab - coming after two decades of royalty-free use - means that ISO is obliged to withdraw the...

A small videoconferencing company is laying claim to the ubiquitous JPEG format, igniting a backlash from some consumers and from a standards organization. Austin, Texas-based Forgent Networks posted a press release to its site earlier this month claiming to own a patent covering the technology behind JPEG, one of the most popular formats for compressing and sharing images on the Internet. According to the firm, the devices covered by the patent include cameras, cell phones, camcorders, personal digital assistants, scanners and other devices. It took a little more than a week for the statement to find its way to the...

By Andrew Orlowski in London Posted: 07/19/2002 at 20:11 EST Yesterday, we broke the story that an obscure Texan video conferencing company is seeking royalties from a patent it acquired five years ago. With the help of a gold-bricking law firm, it wants to collect back royalties from every client device manufacturer which might possibly ever be in receipt of a transmitted JPEG image, and this includes digital cameras, PDAs, phones, scanners and of course, web browsers. As we disclosed, Sony has already paid $15 million for the right to use Forgent's patent. Perhaps "broke the story " isn't the...

By Andrew Orlowski in London Posted: 07/18/2002 at 11:35 EST A video conferencing company based in Austin, Texas says it's going to pursue royalties on the transmission of JPEG images. And it's already found a licensee: Sony Corporation. Formerly known as VTEL, Forgent Networks acquired Compression Labs in 1997, acquiring this patent into the bargain. The patent claim was filed in 1986 but Compression Labs never pursued royalties. Forgent last week declared that it has "the sole and exclusive right to use and license all the claims" under the patent and is seeking a deal wherever JPEGs are transmitted, with...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2002--Forgent(tm) Networks (Nasdaq:FORG - News), a leading provider of enterprise video network software and services, today announced that it has concluded an intellectual property (IP) license agreement with Sony Corporation covering Forgent's data compression technology embodied in U.S. Patent No. 4,698,672 owned by its subsidiary, Compression Labs Inc. Sony is one of the world's largest manufacturers of digital cameras. Other terms of the IP license agreement were not disclosed.