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  1. Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!ukma!gatech!gsusgi1.gsu.edu!gsusgi1.gsu.edu!syscrc
  3. From: syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter)
  4. Subject: Postscript considered harmful with MIME
  5. Message-ID: <syscrc.728169696@gsusgi1.gsu.edu>
  6. Organization: Georgia State University
  7. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:21:36 GMT
  8. Lines: 11
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  10. I read in metamail's README that displaying Postscript in a MIME e-mail is
  11. extremely dangerous (i.e. not secure).  It went on to say that printing
  12. is relatively secure.
  13.  
  14. What's the danger?  Can a Postscript document shell out or something?
  15.  
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  18. Randy Carpenter                    rcarpent@gsu.edu          % Got a light?
  19. Georgia State University           (404) 651-2648            No match.
  20. Wells Computer Center                                        %
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