Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery
From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Anyone using prodigy with an AMIGA?
Message-ID: <1991May8.222552.16597@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 8 May 91 22:25:52 GMT
References: <1991May02.160135.20734@convex.com> <1991May5.205134.665@bilver.uucp> <1991May06.213644.8679@convex.com>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/AA)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Distribution: na
Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
Lines: 18

As quoted from <1991May06.213644.8679@convex.com> by swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren):
+---------------
| There were other things mentioned in the quoted article that further
| demonstrate premeditated data-snarfing.  I never certified that they were
| actually true.  But the things mentioned in the article cannot happen by
| accident.
+---------------

Read up on DOS buffers, and on the standard malloc() function (NOT calloc()).
They can indeed happen, and do happen, and have been proven to happen.  (See
my other post on the subject.  See also comp.risks.)

++Brandon
-- 
Me: Brandon S. Allbery			  Ham: KB8JRR/AA  10m,6m,2m,220,440,1.2
Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG		       (restricted HF at present)
Delphi: ALLBERY				 AMPR: kb8jrr.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88]
uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery       KB8JRR @ WA8BXN.OH