[41671] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape whining virus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mats Bergstrom)
Wed Oct 18 06:07:12 1995
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 11:00:05 +0100 (MET)
From: Mats Bergstrom <asgaard@sos.sll.se>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9510180127.A64777-0100000@aix2.uottawa.ca>
s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca wrote:
> my little contribution: People download binaries off the net all the
> time. Code gets infected and infects PCs. Big deal.
You don't seem to understand the issue here. Netscape with JAVA is
supposed to become more or less the 'only' program you will run,
a kind of superimposed operative system, or your main shell for
running 'everything' from. Much of 'everything' will be downloaded
at the time of execution. (Microsoft is supposed to be reduced to
one of several 'kernel-suppliers' only.) And 'infected PCs' really
*are* a very big deal in corporate and institutional surroundings.
Mats
