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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Another 1.4 Request: Secure AREXX
Message-ID: <3842@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 6 Oct 89 14:42:18 GMT
References: <15071@netnews.upenn.edu>
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
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In article <15071@netnews.upenn.edu> ranjit@grad1.cis.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) writes:
>So, Commodore, you're gonna put AREXX in 1.4, eh?  Soon the place
>will be crawling with scripts, and some of them will be simple
>viruses or booby traps.  That was one of the objections that I
>brought up to my idea of symbolic links to REXX scripts.
>
>Therefore I strongly suggest that you implement a SECURE mode for
>AREXX, in which, for any given script,
>	-ranjit

Let me guess, you live on a deserted island with just your Amiga.  Even there
you built a brick and steel home with triple deadbolts on every door and
window.  You have guard dogs and alligator filled moats.  Did I leave anything
out.  After all, there are thievs and murderers in this world. ;-)

I don't mean to come across as attacking your post, but lets not restrict
the freedom of the normal law abiding Amiga users to to help protect them
from viruses.  First of all, for any protection device implemented, someone
can develop a virus of trojan horse that slips by.  Second, protecting our
computers from viruses is ultimately ones own responsibility.  Just like
protecting ones home, family, and persons from the criminal element.  But,
said protection can only go so far before it starts to look rediculuos and we
must just say "What the f***, I just hope it doesn't happen to me."

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