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Article #330Re: Covert channel
From: John F. Haugh II
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 12:41
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 12:41
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In article <1992Sep1.131202.3262@sniap.mchp.sni.de> frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de writes: >Firstly, I'm not German, I'm Irish. We have been speaking >English almost as long as you have, but with more success. First, my family is Irish ;-) Second, some of us own a dictionary ... permit vb permitted; permitting 1: to consent to : ALLOW 2 : to make possible If the "security policy" "consented to" changing the headers (and we are assuming that "mail" has faithfully implemented the security policy, otherwise it is a bug and someone really should fix it ...), doing so is NOT a violation of the "security policy". This is the old argument between "can" and "may". You CAN break into the house with a crowbar. You MAY break into the house with a crowbar. These are not the same sentence. > / >Slan leat. Auf Wiedersehen. (Have a good day). Which isn't what "auf wiedersehen" means either ... -- John F. Haugh II | "The US Government has the Midas Muffler Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151 | touch: everything they touch turns to UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh | shit." Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org | -- Jay Maynard
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!chinacat!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Covert channel Message-ID: <21448@rpp386.lonestar.org> Date: 2 Sep 92 12:41:04 GMT References: <21417@rpp386.lonestar.org> <1992Sep1.131202.3262@sniap.mchp.sni.de> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas Lines: 29