Beware of Blindly Un-SHARing a File

bill at sigma.UUCP bill at sigma.UUCP
Sun Apr 20 09:24:50 AEST 1986


In article <455 at gould9.UUCP> joel at gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:
>[...]
>Any posting of a Trojan Horse would immediately require that the
>offending site be removed from the net.  If the posting came in through
>a forgery, the site accepting the forgery would be required to take
>corrective actions (such as removing anonymous UUCP logins) or quit the net.
>[...]

Sounds like what you _really_ need is an "unshar.c" (to complement shar.c,
of course), that has a very limited command set, to avoid those Trojan
Horses.



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