17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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. -- Dave Mandl dmandl@panix.com http://wfmu.org/~davem