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To: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
cc: Michael Richards <026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cat exploit 
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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 14:56:40 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Because its non-intuitive. How many end users are going to know that
> simply cat'ing a file is dangerous? More or less shouldnt protect me.
> xterm and rxvt should.

Fine, submit your patches to the XFree86 Project and the author of
rxvt then.  This discussion passed "tedious" in the road some time
back and is now heading rapidly towards idiotic status.

- Jordan

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