[4979] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: Prediction:Plug-ins will go away (Re: Automatic trojans)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Heiser)
Fri Apr 4 12:16:02 1997
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 09:26:10 -0500
From: Jay Heiser <Jay@homecom.com>
Reply-To: jay@homecom.com
To: Gary McGraw <gem@rstcorp.com>
CC: rjc@n2k.com, WWW-SECURITY@ns2.rutgers.edu, patton@sysnet.net
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
If I had a dancing pig, would I be doing what I'm doing now?
I don't think so.
Gary McGraw wrote:
>It is unlikely that plug-ins and other fun forms of executable
>content will go away (as the subject of this mail implies). Ed
>Felten once said, "Given the choice between dancing pigs and security,
>people will choose dancing pigs every time." I think he's right.
--
Jay Heiser, 703-610-6846, jay@homecom.com
Homecom Internet Security Services
http://www.homecom.com/services/hiss
