Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!saul.cis.upenn.edu!hodas From: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: NetBunny revisited Message-ID: <35401@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 8 Jan 91 16:24:18 GMT References: <1991Jan8.022451.18538@engin.umich.edu> <1991Jan8.031349.29135@csrd.uiuc.edu> <1991Jan08.060744.23284@hoss.unl.edu> <1991Jan8.144949.25796@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Josh Hodas) Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 46 In article <1991Jan8.144949.25796@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Kain) writes: >ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) writes: > >>In <1991Jan8.031349.29135@csrd.uiuc.edu> forbes@sp11.csrd.uiuc.edu (Michael Scott Forbes) writes: > >>>Usenet to Eveready: What are you, STUPID?! Someone's just offered your >>>company *free* advertising for one of its products, and you don't want it?! > >>That might very well be the point. Eveready may not own the rights to the >>Bunny commercials -- their creator, Chiat/Day/Mojo, might. If so, it may >>create a legal muck that Eveready doesn't want to wade through for one >>ambitious (and humorous) programmer. > >Not only that, but from the descriptions of NetBunny posted here and >elsewhere, it looks like it could be VERY annoying if misused. If one >person on campus got ahold of netBunny, (s)he could really cause a lot >of headaches anywhere on our network, from administrators to >professors to students - it would seem anyone on the Ethernet would be >at risk for that pink rabbit to come marching across the screen! Actually, this is not true. The initiator would first need physical access to the machines in order to load the netbunny init. Once the init is set up, then the rabbit can be started from any machine on the net. But the init must first be added to the target machine's system folder like any other init. All this aside I understand Eveready's reluctance given the current phobia (largely AIDS hysteria induced) over viruses. Josh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Josh Hodas Home Phone: (215) 222-7112 4223 Pine Street School Office Phone: (215) 898-9514 Philadelphia, PA 19104 New E-Mail Address: hodas@saul.cis.upenn.edu