[1335] in bugtraq
Re: MIME question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mueller_scott)
Tue Mar 28 13:17:47 1995
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 08:20:34 PST
From: scott@loc3.tandem.com (mueller_scott)
To: bugtraq@fc.net
X-Envelope-To: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
>If you can invoke a sufficiently sophisticated postscript interpreter
>with an email message or a web graphic, you can embed code to do
>unintended things, since PostScript is a full language.
The new Java language in the Hot Java browser looks pretty full. The Sun
folks have made a commendable effort at building security in from the start,
but even if their code is bugfree, there is still always the possibility of a
user resetting the restrictive security defaults to something more convenient
and therefore more dangerous.
More info: <URL:http://java.sun.com/>
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