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 References: <264@octopus.UUCP> <8820@netsys.UUCP> <268@octopus.UUCP> <708@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> Organization: SCADA Lines: 15 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. -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva. -- U Ferranti International Controls Corporation. -- Phone: 713-274-5180. CI$: 70216,1076. ICBM: 29 37 N / 95 36 W. -- UUCP: {uunet,academ!uhnix1,bellcore!tness1}!sugar!ficc!peter.