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Re: MIME question...


From: scott () loc3 tandem com (mueller_scott)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 95 08:20:34 PST


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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    Unix System/Network Administrator, Host-, Post-, News- and Web-Master



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