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Kelly Martin, 2004-02-20

If hundreds of thousands of people are still blindly clicking on attachments in their email, is there any hope of mitigating the threat of hundreds of thousands of compromised systems with open backdoors?

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Knock, Knock, Knock 2004-02-25
Anonymous
Hmm you mention skipping html to avoid buffer overflows? well adding another element will certainly increase the probability of buffer overruns, but HTML in itself is not more likely to contain buffer overflows than MIME is.. Often buffer overflows have been found in From:, To:, Date: fields etc.
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