In article <DGn8F6.50y@sgi.sgi.com>, fc@all.net (Dr. Frederick B. Cohen) writes:

Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist Wrote: ...

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If a user configures a postscript viewer that has not had the file operations disabled as a helper app to any web browser then they are opening themselves up for a world of hurt. The same is true if they just download the file and run their viewer on it manually. The same is true if they configure /bin/sh as an external viewer.

Obviously everyone should heed perry's warnings and emasculate their postscript interpreters before using them to view files of unknown origin.

WRONG!!! Netscape claims to be "secure" - hence it is Netscape's job to be secure - regardless of the user's use of their product. Otherwise, the ads should read:

"Netscape can be used securely by sufficiently knowledgeable users who have emasculated their postscript interpreters before using them to view files of unknown origin, and who have removed all other known, unknown, and/or undisclosed security holes from their systems. Otherwise, Netscape is insecure and should not be trusted."

If the user sets up a postscript viewer as an external viewer for postscript files, it's not Netscape's fault if the viewer does something insecure. -- Sure we spend a lot of money, but that doesn't mean | Tom Weinstein we *do* anything. -- Washington DC motto | tomw@engr.sgi.com