Re: Bogus reply-to - fun
On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, John Summerfield wrote:
> I presume Alvin thinks that sending mail to &halt;@their-domain.com
> might shutdown someone's system. Might.
"might" was the whole point of the entertainment
( if it works, it'd be super hilarious - esp since its NOT supposed to
work )
> It's pretty improbable that it would work because
> a) If so, It's a pretty obvious security vuln that would have been
> noticed by now if it existed in any mainline software.
too many new mua coming online daily ... and people tweeking this
and tweeking that for "their version of i want it this way"
> b) /sbin and /usr/sbin are not normally in users' paths.
not normally, but how many have it set ..
( how many went in an added it for non-root users )
> c) Halting someone's computer might be inconvenient, but rarely harmful.
inconvenient is a good way to show what could have been worst
> Note that if this could be done, Linux would be a pretty handy medium
> for distributing viruses and spam.
they're having too much fun writing stuff for the other boxes
c ya
alvin
- for the dup emails ... its just super odd that that the unwanted
cc arrives after the posts to the public list have already occured ...
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