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>On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 05:19:37PM -0400, Felix Stalder wrote: >> Scott Culp, from the Microsoft Security Response Center was, in a sense, >> right when he told the same newspaper: "This is a general issue, not a >> Microsoft issue. You can write a virus for any platform." > >This is simply false. If your mail program doesn't run executables >that it receives, there is no way that anyone can write a virus for >your platform. > >My home computer is running Linux; my mail-retrieval utility is >Fetchmail, and my mail agent is Mutt. These programs simply do not >run executables that they receive. There is no reason that they >should. If someone sends me a program, and I want to run it, I'm >perfectly capable of doing that myself. It's completely absurd for a >mail agent to make that decision for the user. > >There are no viruses for Linux because Microsoft Outlook doesn't run >on Linux. It's that simple. > >Benjamin Geer >Software Engineer It's completely absurd for a Software Engineer to make the decision apropos `user` Benjamin Geer = Felix Stalder = model c!t!znz++ "Monoculture breeds parasites" - although Felix Stalder = begetz 1zt l!nux = neu + !mprovd mob akz!on + ev!.densz 4 nonl!near zumaz!on zkemaz || m9ndfukc.macht.fre! _____..... !zometr!kc kontrakz!onz . . . . . . dom!z!lz + ch!fon!erz = l!kl! konduz!v 1 shok total . . . . . . . . . . ||||||||||||||||||||| rekurrent exc!tat!on || ||||||||eusocial.com _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold