[42036] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape Logic Bomb detailed by IETF
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Oct 23 09:48:05 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Oct 1995 14:08:54 PDT."
<199510222108.OAA05412@jobe.shell.portal.com>
Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 09:44:05 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Mr. Anonymous has a good reason to be anonymous -- he's an annoying
fool.
Yes, Mr. Anonymous, we all know postscript is dangerous. Thank you for
this stunning revelation. We've read the IETF documents before, and
some of us even helped write them.
anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com writes:
> Clearly, someone has a vested interest which they are expending a
> great deal of effort to protect. My email to Netscape detailing their
> logic bomb has gone unanswered, and unacknowledged for ten days now.
Maybe because you're an idiot and they don't feel that its necessary
to answer. What more need be said?
Those of us who care run our postscript interpreters with all the
dangerous commands stripped out, but given that Netscape doesn't
supply postscript interpreters, its not really their fault or
problem.
Perry
