walt <w41...@gmail.com> posted gnjtgd$se...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:22:53 +0000:
> 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. The thing is, however, that UUE includes the file permission field, and even Windows apps will need to put /something/ there. My question would be what gravity puts there, and where it gets it (some config option, a default, asks each time, looks to see if it's an exe and adds exe perms, what?). But you're right about faked headers, except Giga is going to have it nailed to a specific account in any case. But they're the only one who will and without that info the user could frame someone else posting from giga. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
