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1995-09-22 - Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

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From: dmandl@panix.com
To: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Message Hash: b4f94e530b3f9e962896f067aaf89e7375033aaac1d15430b1fa4da32534844b
Message ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.950922154119.7388A-100000@panix.com>
Reply To: <199509221927.PAA16372@homeport.org>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-22 19:47:17 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 12:47:17 PDT

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From: dmandl@panix.com
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 12:47:17 PDT
To: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Subject: Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
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On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Adam Shostack wrote:

> Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> | I don't believe the Sun Java stuff would suffer from it, although I
> | fear Java a great deal.
> 
> 	I keep hearing this thought.  Isn't Win95 with its
> 'executables in email' much more dangerous than Java, which at least
> tries to address security?

Is that the new MS-Word you're thinking of?  I hear that it lets you
imbed macros containing executable code in documents.  That's got to
be one of the most dangerous ideas ever cooked up.

   --Dave.

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Dave Mandl
dmandl@panix.com
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