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Subject:	Re: questions about security & WWW browsers
From:	Darren Reed <avalon @ coombs . anu . edu . au>
Date:	Tue, 21 Feb 1995 01:05:23 +1100 (EDT)
To:	lavondes @ tidtest . total . fr
Cc:	mccurley @ cs . sandia . gov, firewalls @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to:	<9502201408 . AA06931 @ tidtest . total . fr> from "Michel Lavondes" at Feb 20, 95 02:08:32 pm

> 
> 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)

cat -v anyone ?  (At least on SYSV seems to convert those nasty control
chars to printables).

darren

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