1996-12-17 - RE: Securing ActiveX.

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1996-12-17 14:27:33 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 06:27:33 -0800 (PST)

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From: dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM)
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 06:27:33 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: Securing ActiveX.
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Ray Arachelian <sunder@brainlink.com> writes:
> Or you may find that shareware control authors won't bother to sign their
> controls, etc...  Same situation.  At some point trust or no trust, once
> your hard drive is wiped, so is the record of the signature that says "The
> last control you downloaded came from XYZ.com and was written by Vulis."

If you FTP an executable from the Internet which purports to be a "kewl"
encryption program, and instead it wipes out everything it has write
access to, then Ray Arachelian probably wrote it.

Armenians are murderous cowards. They killed over 2 million Moslems in
this century alone - mostly women and children.

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Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM
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