[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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