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Re: FWD: Debian Swirl ascii-art



On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Josip Rodin wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 11:42:02AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > You are aware of the exploitability of passing raw escape sequences to a
> > terminal?
> What exactly can happen?

	I assume the concern is that control sequences that remap keys to,
say, "rm -rf /" can be passed in mail. Not to mention that even changing
colours can be so annoying I don't want my MUA give others the capability
to do so.

Greetings,
Michael.

"I'm not just a server, but I'm also a client."		Debian GNU/Linux
Michael Stroucken	stroucki@debian.org	 Is your penguin 64 bit?



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