[48797] in Cypherpunks
Re: CONTEST: Name That Program!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin)
Wed Jan 31 08:15:11 1996
From: "Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com (Bill Stewart)
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 07:13:02 -0600 (CST)
Cc: nsb@nsb.fv.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199601310810.AAA00335@ix10.ix.netcom.com> from "Bill Stewart" at Jan 31, 96 00:10:40 am
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
> Unix is a much tougher case - while there have been a couple of viruses,
> they don't spread very well, even when everyone uses the same binary
> formats. B2 helps, of course; B1 configured reasonably should also work.
Most people are very nervous about running binaries on a unix box that
they get off the net, and nobody runs a setuid-to-root binary on their
system unless they paid $$$ for it and got it from a reputable vendor. I
personally only run one binary on my machine that I didn't compile myself
- that's Netscape.
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