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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mime
- Subject: Re: Postscript considered harmful with MIME
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 01:43:51 GMT
- Organization: The University of Maryland, College Park
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- In article <syscrc.728169696@gsusgi1.gsu.edu> syscrc@pickle.gsu.edu (Randy Carpenter) writes:
- >I read in metamail's README that displaying Postscript in a MIME e-mail is
- >extremely dangerous (i.e. not secure). It went on to say that printing
- >is relatively secure.
-
- Briefly, imagine if you will that your workstation has a (Display)
- PostScript interpreter. Your workstation has a file system, with
- various interesting files. Recall that PostScript has file operators.
- Season to taste.
-
- This is more an implementation issue/warning than a problem with MIME
- itself.
-
- louie
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