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Re: Another Netscape Bug (and possible security hole)
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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