[108066] in Cypherpunks
Re: FWD: New attack on PGP keys with a Word Macro
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arunas Norvaisa)
Wed Feb 3 06:54:06 1999
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 12:41:37 +0100
From: Arunas Norvaisa <an@arunas.bert.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199902021430.PAA18399@replay.com>
Reply-To: Arunas Norvaisa <an@arunas.bert.org>
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:30:11 +0100, Anonymous <nobody@replay.com> wrote
(and I quoted):
nobody>
nobody> > Fred "Dickhead" Cohen <fc@all.net> writes:
nobody>
nobody> > I just got a look at a Word file (CALIG.DOC) that
nobody> > finds the user's private PGP key ring and ftp's it to...
nobody>
nobody> > I figure the best defense against this is to:
nobody> [snip]
nobody>
nobody> Oooh, Fred, does it try to make unauthorised telnet logins, too?
nobody> Naughty naughty macro.
Does it try to make dial-up connection to your ISP as well? ;)
nobody>
nobody> I figure the best defence is simply to avoid M$ Turd...
The best thing I've read in cypherpunks in ages. ;)
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