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Article #62Re: Postscript considered harmful with MIME
From: Louis A. Mamakos
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:43
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:43
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In article <syscrc.728169696@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes: >I read in metamail's README that displaying Postscript in a MIME e-mail is >extremely dangerous (i.e. not secure). It went on to say that printing >is relatively secure. Briefly, imagine if you will that your workstation has a (Display) PostScript interpreter. Your workstation has a file system, with various interesting files. Recall that PostScript has file operators. Season to taste. This is more an implementation issue/warning than a problem with MIME itself. louie
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ukma!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!ni.umd.edu!sayshell.umd.edu!louie From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime Subject: Re: Postscript considered harmful with MIME Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:43:51 GMT Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 15 Message-ID: <1k7donINNn23@ni.umd.edu> References: <syscrc.728169696@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: sayshell.umd.edu