[39915] in Cypherpunks
Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dmandl@panix.com)
Fri Sep 22 19:21:32 1995
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 15:47:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: dmandl@panix.com
To: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Cc: perry@piermont.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199509221927.PAA16372@homeport.org>
On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:
> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
> | I don't believe the Sun Java stuff would suffer from it, although I
> | fear Java a great deal.
>
> I keep hearing this thought. Isn't Win95 with its
> 'executables in email' much more dangerous than Java, which at least
> tries to address security?
Is that the new MS-Word you're thinking of? I hear that it lets you
imbed macros containing executable code in documents. That's got to
be one of the most dangerous ideas ever cooked up.
--Dave.
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Dave Mandl
dmandl@panix.com
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