On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote: > I presume Alvin thinks that sending mail to &halt;@their-domain.com > might shutdown someone's system. Might.
"might" was the whole point of the entertainment ( if it works, it'd be super hilarious - esp since its NOT supposed to work ) > It's pretty improbable that it would work because > a) If so, It's a pretty obvious security vuln that would have been > noticed by now if it existed in any mainline software. too many new mua coming online daily ... and people tweeking this and tweeking that for "their version of i want it this way" > b) /sbin and /usr/sbin are not normally in users' paths. not normally, but how many have it set .. ( how many went in an added it for non-root users ) > c) Halting someone's computer might be inconvenient, but rarely harmful. inconvenient is a good way to show what could have been worst > Note that if this could be done, Linux would be a pretty handy medium > for distributing viruses and spam. they're having too much fun writing stuff for the other boxes c ya alvin - for the dup emails ... its just super odd that that the unwanted cc arrives after the posts to the public list have already occured ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
