1. (Offtopic) Re: Re: the fate of a euphorian
- Posted by Greg Harris <blackdog at CDC.NET>
Oct 10, 2000
-
Last edited Oct 11, 2000
Yes.. but when you have applications that support it.. they can be automated
using it..
This makes running these applications in a large unattended batch enviroment
easy..
Of course we have firewalls, security zones and proxies in place so that
isn't really a problem..
Regards,
Greg H.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:43 PM
Subject: Re: the fate of a euphorian
> On 10 Oct 2000, at 20:37, Greg Harris wrote:
>
>
> > <WishList>
> > Still wish it had native support for structures, ODBC and ActiveX (for
batch
> > scripting).
> > </WishList>
>
> Ewwwww,, with all the possible security problems around ActiveX i have it
shut off in
> the browser, in the email, and run a proxy to filter it out of the text so
the browser
> doesn't see it.
>
> Kat
>
2. Re: (Offtopic) Re: Re: the fate of a euphorian
- Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET>
Oct 10, 2000
-
Last edited Oct 11, 2000
I have a firewall too, but if you even allow http or email out, ActiveX, or any
other good
trojan language, can either http out on it's own (or trigger IE to http out),
smtp out on
it's own, etc. If you don't know it's running, and you didn't write it, how
would you know
it is well-behaved?
Kat
On 10 Oct 2000, at 21:06, Greg Harris wrote:
> Yes.. but when you have applications that support it.. they can be automated
> using it..
> This makes running these applications in a large unattended batch enviroment
> easy..
>
> Of course we have firewalls, security zones and proxies in place so that
> isn't really a problem..
>
> Regards,
> Greg H.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kat" <gertie at PELL.NET>
> To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 8:43 PM
> Subject: Re: the fate of a euphorian
>
>
> > On 10 Oct 2000, at 20:37, Greg Harris wrote:
> >
> >
> > > <WishList>
> > > Still wish it had native support for structures, ODBC and ActiveX (for
> batch
> > > scripting).
> > > </WishList>
> >
> > Ewwwww,, with all the possible security problems around ActiveX i have it
> shut off in
> > the browser, in the email, and run a proxy to filter it out of the text so
> the browser
> > doesn't see it.
> >
> > Kat
> >
>
3. Re: (Offtopic) Re: Re: the fate of a euphorian
Kat,
>I have a firewall too, but if you even allow http or email out,
>ActiveX, or any other good
>trojan language, can either http out on it's own (or trigger IE to
>http out), smtp out on
>it's own, etc. If you don't know it's running, and you didn't
>write it, how would you know
>it is well-behaved?
>
>Kat
>
are you really saying you don't trust nor run software that wasn't written
by yourself???
-----
cheers,
Derek Parnell