Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A counter-example for those who would eliminate PC binaries
Message-ID: <1013@ficc.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 15:16:38 GMT
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In article ... msf@prandtl.nas.nasa.gov (Michael S. Fischbein) writes:
> The mahjongg tiles were originally posted in a compressed binary form that
> took up much less room (about 66K, total).  Some concern was expressed that
> a virius/trojan horse/trapdoor was hidden in this binary distribution...

Are you telling me that people were actually worried about a trojan horse
in a data file that manifestly could never be executed?

This is paranoid. I mean, you might as well worry about getting AIDS from
the data. Or having a trojan horse in your time-of-day clock.
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