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From: Dave Lawrence
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Trojan horses in mail text
Message-ID: <2101@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Date: 15 Dec 88 04:37:26 GMT
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jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle) wrote:
>	Mail that makes "vi" do interesting things.
>	Mail that makes "emacs" do interesting things.
>	Mail that makes Display Postscript do interesting things.
>	Mail that makes "intelligent agents" do interesting things.
>	Mail that makes fax machines do interesting things.

And while we're at it, how about mail that makes sunt(f|t)ools do
interesting things?  I can really make people wonder with a 
few imbedded escape sequences ... and if I'm logged into their
machine while they run suntools on console, they're sanity
can just about go bye bye. (This all assumes that I would do such
a thing, which I wouldn't (anymore).)  
 
It also teaches another valuable lesson ... even a terribly
simple utility like _c_a_t(1) can be used for ulterior 
motives.  
 
Dave
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