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:zz: Security risk? PS--
- To: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
- Subject: :zz: Security risk? PS--
- From: Ted Nelson <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 20:51:23 +0900
- Cc: ted@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Reply-to: zzdev@xxxxxxxxxx
So how come it's more of a security risk
when it's loaded from a CNS copy than if I
download it and run it on CNS myself? Huh? Huh ?-)
ChrzT
>WOOPS! Gee, Andrew,
>
>I didn't realize we were a security risk. I thought we were
> always running in user spaces which had limited privileges.
> And that while a master copy resides in system space somewhere,
> it just got copied into user space prior to execution.
>
>You mean a Perl program could break out of a user's
> low-privileged space ?-(
>
>Best, T
>
>
>At 05:06 PM 10/8/98 +1000, you wrote:
>>On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 02:45:16PM +1000, Gossamer wrote:
>>> Ted Nelson wrote:
>>> > Unforch CNS say they don't want ZZ files to open
>>> > automatically from the whatchamacallit table.
>>> > Say it's a security risk.
>>>
>>> Umm, xanni, can you translate this? :)
>>
>>Yeah, I can see why they feel that way. Since zigzag cells can contain
>>perl code which can do anything the user can do, it would be trivial to
>>write trojans using zigzag that would do almost anything malicious when
>>certain cells were executed. Of course, users should probably look at
>>the cell contents before executing them. Since Zigzag doesn't execute
>>any cell contents automatically at present, only when requested by the
>>user, this is not a severe risk as it is with MS Word or Excel.
>>
>>Cheers,
>> *** Xanni ***
>>--
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>>
>>
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