9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
1:50 p.m.
On Mar 9, 2007, at 2:44 AM, der Mouse wrote:
No (well, not most of them); why? Do you think running malicious code
is fine provided you're not running as root?
Well, "Fine", no...but certainly not particularly dangerous if
you're doing it under a dedicated account and your machine isn't
swiss-cheese security-wise. And it's certainly no more dangerous
than anything else and running it without inspecting every line of code.
As I wrote,
(I missed that somehow)
Sounds good to me, I do the same thing. :-) I will grab mterm and
check it out.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
[vttest] aws, once upon a time. But these days, it
uses
./configure, which is a security nightmare waiting to happen.
Uhh...WTF? Do you
do your builds as root or something? Perhaps it's time to mention mterm again. [...]
URL? > See
ftp.rodents.montreal.qc.ca:/mouse/X/mterm.src/ [...].
I'm sure there's some fancy-schmancy URL syntax for anonymous FTP
areas, URL:anon-ftp:somethingorother or some such. I prefer to stick
to the good old host:pathname syntax used for anon FTP since ~forever.