Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)

[dmandl at panix.com]

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.

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