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Re: anonymous web pages (Was: SurfWatch)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Just Rich)
Tue Mar 12 03:23:44 1996

Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 23:57:38 -0800
From: Just Rich <rich@c2.org>
To: Louis Freeh <cypherpunks@toad.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960312003232.4898A-100000@rwd.goucher.edu>

On Tue, 12 Mar 1996 00:35:38 -0500 (EST) jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu (Bruce Zambini) 
wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Mar 1996, Mark M. wrote:
>>From your public html directory, try 'ln -s /etc/passwd passwords.txt'.
>
>Then add a link to your homepage.... 

Er, I believe CERN, NCSA, and N*tscape all disallow following symbolic links by 
default for precisely this reason. There is a follow-symlinks-for-owner-only 
option that we recently turned on.

-rich
 Institute for Ernst Zundel Revisionism
 http://www.c2.org/~rich/Press/Swedish/


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