uOn Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:02:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Hansen) wrote or quoted :
>Summary: a buffer overflow problem in Microsoft's JPEG redering >library, used my almost all Windoze email and web clients, would allow >an attacker to execute any arbitrary code he wished on your computer >simply by tricking you into viewing a doctored JPEG image. Since >solved (this problem is _so_ last year, dahling), but it belies your >assertion that "pictures are not code." By your definition all socket communications contains code because of the existence of buffer overrun "bugs" -- probably deliberately put there by unscrupulous employees. The pictureness is not at fault. MS was at fault. No wonder the community has failed to solve spam with attitudes like that -- extreme naysaying, misplacing the source of the problem, and calling each other "dahling" is bound to get everyone out of a problem-solving mode. You probably were all told the story of the three sillies as a child about people who wept themselves to inaction worrying imagined futures rather than dealing with the realities of the present. I think fretting about minutiae, and the desire for a perfect ant-spam solution has blocked getting on with a reasonable solution. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
