Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Another 1.4 Request: Secure AREXX Message-ID: <4321@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 8 Oct 89 13:44:08 GMT References: <15071@netnews.upenn.edu> <22864@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 16 In article <22864@cup.portal.com> Benton_J_Elkins@cup.portal.com writes: >Any one who doesn't test code dl'ed from a suspect source doesn't >really care too much about the possibility of virii. You're right, I don't care too much about the possibility of viruses. And I really doubt that anyone would bother doing a virus in AREXX. A Trojan horse program, maybe. But it'd still be more "fun" to put that sort of thing in a binary that can't be defused with a text editor! Bad guys are really much more likely to stick bogus code in binary-only distributions simply because it's so much harder to find. -- Peter "Have you hugged your wolf today" da Silva `-_-' ...texbell!sugar!peter, or peter@sugar.hackercorp.com 'U` ``Back off dude! I'm a topologist!'' -- Andrew Molitor