Hi Bob.

01-Apr-04 04:40:13, Bob Lawrence wrote to Jasen Betts


 RG>> The point I was trying to make is that cookies are NOT executable
 RG>> files

 JB>> a point well made.

 BL> And the point *I* was trying to make was that cookies come
 BL> unsolicited, are stored god-knows-where, and could easily have an
 BL> EXE lurking in amongst the dross, just waiting to infect.

no the format is wrong. and they don't get .EXE filenames... (I think they
get .TXT or windows systems)

 BL> Unfortunately, he's stuck with a suck-arse system that only gets
 BL> worse every time he tries to improve it. I don't know why he just
 BL> doesn't give up and hang Windows on the end of Linux, the way he
 BL> originally hung it on the end of DOS.

Maybe he plans to.  Apple hung their Mac GUI off BSD (a different brand of
free unix).  Be afraid, Be veery afraid.

 JB>> It seems there was some way to get OE to run stuff wiothout
 JB>> asking and there was no way to block it.

 BL> That's what I was talking about originally, an inbuilt backdoor to
 BL> WinXP... and I wonder how many others there are, either accidental
 BL> or intentional. I simply don't trust M$ and the Americans.

 BL> My version of Linux is SuSE, btw.

Debian here... and some dos until I can figure out how to get inn2 and ifnews
to communicate.

 -=> Bye <=-

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