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2. Re: (Offtopic) Re: Re: the fate of a euphorian

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Oct 10, 2000
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• 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
> >
>