dmandl@panix.com wrote: | On Fri, 22 Sep 1995, Adam Shostack wrote: | > 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. No, this is a seperate problem. Its not auto-executing code in Microsoft documents that worries me, so much as the ability to include executables as clickable images in a mail message, with the user having no control over what environment the program executes in. If strong fences make good neighbors, where are the fences in my network neighborhood? Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume