[Nh-pm] on code signatures
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Wed May 4 07:41:48 PDT 2005
Sometimes people put little bits of code in their .sigs that do cute
and unexpected things. I've been known to try some myself (back in the
day I got a nice Snoopy out of a tiny snippit of PostScript from
Usenet), though I usually su to nobody for paranoia's sake.
Well, here's a cautionary tale about why that's maybe not such a great
idea:
http://puetzk.org/projects/perl-sig-trojan.txt
-Bill
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