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- I strongly disagree. The security issue is inherent in the network, not
- in URLs. We should not attempt to scale some moral high ground simply to
- stop up some possible security holes, which are not ours to stop up in the
- first place.
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- The answer to insecure network services is to make them more secure, not
- to limit the deployment and usefulness of URLs.
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- If a dedicated cracker wishes to break the system, I would suggest that
- writing an HTML document, and using that as a lock pick on doors which
- have no locks to begin with, would be a marvelous exercise in stupidity.
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- </rr>
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- On Sat, 26 Jun 1993, William M. Perry wrote:
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- > What about security? What if some bozo decided to put a url like:
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- > tcp://some.generic.news.server:nntp/line#1\nCODE TO FORGE NEWSGROUP\n...
- >
- > or
- >
- > tcp://some.generic.news.server:25/HELO some.host\nRCPT TO: root\nMAIL
- > FROM: stupid.user\nDATA\n Hey bozo - <Very derogative statements> Love
- > - stupid.user\n.\nQUIT\n
- >
- > And called it something like "Man Pages For Ultrix"?
- >
- > Could lead to some interesting discussions with your local sysadmin if
- > you clicked on that second one. :)
- >
- > I talked with Marc Vanheyningen about this a few months ago, and he
- > convinced me that it would be a _BAD THING_ to do something like this.
- > Not that there are many bozos out there that would do one of the
- > above, but it would only take one or two to cause some real trouble.
- >
- > -Bill Perry
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