Re: MIME question...

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>If you can invoke a sufficiently sophisticated postscript interpreter
>with an email message or a web graphic, you can embed code to do
>unintended things, since PostScript is a full language.

The new Java language in the Hot Java browser looks pretty full.  The Sun
folks have made a commendable effort at building security in from the start,
but even if their code is bugfree, there is still always the possibility of a
user resetting the restrictive security defaults to something more convenient
and therefore more dangerous.

More info:  <URL:http://java.sun.com/>

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