On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:06:46 +0000, Duncan wrote: > walt <w41...@gmail.com> posted > gnjm9r$uj...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 > 13:19:55 +0000: > >> Interesting to note that only attachments posted from a *nix news >> client would cause this problem in the first place, and the article in >> question was posted with Gravity, which was once a Windows-only client. >> Since then it's become open source and the perpetrator must be running >> a unix version customized for evildoing. Feh! > > Wouldn't it be more likely that he's running a Windows version, but > hacked to use 755 as the default perms? I mean, if he's got to have > customized/hacked it anyway, that seems like a MUCH simpler hack than > getting it to run in *ix, except possibly with wine, in which case it'd > still use the presumably 644 default perms assumption.
I just looked at Gravity source code and it's obviously still a true Windows application. Far more likely than either hypothesis is that the perp simply forged his headers to cast suspicion on someone he doesn't like :o) I can't imagine the intended victim of a Windows app posted with *ix file perms. Such an audience would be too small to bother about, I'd think: a *ix user who is sophisticated enough to set wine up to run a .exe by clicking on it? Like hens teeth, I imagine, and most likely much too smart to fall for it in the first place. Dunno. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
