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Subject: Re: questions about security & WWW browsers
From: lavondes @ tidtest . total . fr (Michel Lavondes)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 95 14:08:32 GMT
To: mccurley @ cs . sandia . gov (Kevin S. McCurley)
Cc: firewalls @ greatcircle . com (fw)
In-reply-to: <9502180748 . AA04277 @ work . cs . sandia . gov . noname>; from "Kevin S. McCurley" at Feb 18, 95 12:48 am
Reply-to: lavondes @ tidtest . total . fr

Kevin S. McCurley wrote :
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Perhaps it would be shorter to give a list of "safe" things.  Can anybody
> think of one???
> 

Seems hardly possible, since I think even cat would be vulnerable. AFAIR,
DEC VT-2xx can receive a string and send it back as "keyboard input."
(I think it's done with UDKs, but I didn't check)
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