The odd saga of CVE-2012-5639

> It doesn't just have privacy implications though, it also has implications for e.g. archiving, version control,... when that external content goes away or even just changes. I would argue that any document software is broken by default if it transparently includes remote content.

We lost that fight when including external content became possible, which (according to the article) was over 10 years ago. Maybe it's time to acknowledge that that is no longer the world we live in.