10.0680 scary ActiveX?

WILLARD MCCARTY (willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Sun, 9 Feb 1997 09:12:32 +0000 (GMT)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 10, No. 680.
Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (Princeton/Rutgers)
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
Information at http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/

[1] From: Gary Shawver <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca> (10)
Subject: ActiveX

[Opinions on the following scary piece would be welcome. --WM]

Willard,

While I've got you reading HotWired, why not check out this article?

http://www.packet.com/packet/garfinkel/96/47/index2a.html

Remember the security scare about Java over a year ago? Looks like
Microsoft's ActiveX poses an even bigger security threat.

Sincerely,
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Gary W. Shawver
E-Mail <gshawver@chass.utoronto.ca>
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