TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: fidosoft.husky
to: MARK LEWIS
from: JOE DELAHAYE
date: 2015-03-14 19:25:00
subject: Unpacking insecure arcmai

  Re: Unpacking insecure arcmail
  By: mark lewis to Joe Delahaye on Sat Mar 14 2015 11:45:02

 JD>> If indeed it would be a mail bomb, then unpacking it first before
 JD>> tossing would still create problems I would think.

 ML> that's why the tosser simply inspects the bundle to see what the
 ML> compression ratio is before unpacking... it seems that many developers
 ML> have forgotten how to do these common things as has been done since at
 ML> least the 90s...


I think more likely the thought of mailbonbs as a threat no longer exists.
--- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32
* Origin: The Lions Den BBS, Trenton, On, CDN (1:249/303)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@docsplace.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.