[4707] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Big IE hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Inder)
Fri Mar 7 06:40:41 1997
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:45:25 GMT
From: Robert Inder <robert@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To: jay@homecom.com
CC: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: <331F3F7C.6DF8@HomeCom.com> (message from Jay Heiser on Thu, 06
Mar 1997 17:04:44 -0500)
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In the context of others mocking Microsoft's argument that
the IE vulnerability could only be exploited by webmasters who created
maliscious code, Jay Heiser writes....
> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 17:04:44 -0500
> From: Jay Heiser <Jay@homecom.com>
>
:
:
> Unlike viruses and human attacks, hostile applets will be
> non-replicating entities unable to migrate away from a specific IP
> address. The more people who get hacked, the more likely that the
> attack will be discovered and shut down.
>
Is this saying more than
"Java is designed so that Applets won't be able to replicate, and
I can't see how they will be able to migrate"?
Robert.
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