Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:24:28 -0500 (CDT) From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cat exploit Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.4.01.9809101623240.13293-100000@dfw.nationwide.net> In-Reply-To: <18171.905461424@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Only because you didn't actually read my message, you just fired off a > knee-jerk response. Again, what I actually said was "don't blindly > cat it to your screen" which is a perfectly valid point. If you want > something which protects you, use more or less as many others have > suggested. If you don't want something which protects you then why > are we even having this discussion? Those who deliberately wish to > inflict pain on themselves can find it in a wide variety of areas. Because its non-intuitive. How many end users are going to know that simply cat'ing a file is dangerous? More or less shouldnt protect me. xterm and rxvt should. > - Jordan > Aleph One / aleph1@dfw.net http://underground.org/ KeyID 1024/948FD6B5 Fingerprint EE C9 E8 AA CB AF 09 61 8C 39 EA 47 A8 6A B8 01 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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