At 12:41 AM 4/13/97 -0700, Rich Graves wrote:

Or blame it on the client. Microsoft handled the utter absence of security in their WFW/Win95 SMB implementation by claiming, falsely, that Samba was sending "illegal commands." After a thorough public thrashing, the Win95 product manager eventually changed that to "specific networking commands," with no retraction and no indication that the document had changed.

Heh. Sending illegal or unexpected commands to a program is _the_ standard way to break security; if they can't defend against that, they're hosed. I'd reserve the phrase "utter absence of security" for systems that let you ignore the permissions by just asking nicely :-)

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Interesting paper. I was surprised it didn't explicitly mention Plan 9 when it was discussing other operating systems, though mentioning Inferno does include that indirectly. It also didn't mention security - it talked about the kind of world where you can just buy a computer, turn it on, plug it in, and it'll find whatever resources it wants in the One Big Operating System. # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)