[H-GEN] Re: Linux Networking - Some Basic Questions

[Anthony Towns]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 10:39:07PM +1130, Mike Andrew wrote:
> please note, as policy, i do not, will not, and refuse to open attachments.

That's not a particularly good policy IMO. If you can't trust your
software to not keep any opened attachments in a safe sandbox [0],
you should get new software, not just ingore attachments altogether.

> My isp blocks jpg rubbish for similar reasons.

Because, after all, there are so many JPEG viruses around these days.

Cheers,
aj

[0] less, for example, is a safe sandbox. qiv probably is too. Word is not,
    and may or not be able to be made so. Discarding `foo.tgz' because it
    could be `foo.wordvirus' is indicative of either bad software, or a
    poorly configured system, not a good security policy.

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 ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it 
        results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.''
                                        -- Linus Torvalds
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