Keith Moore wrote:
I just hope they put a MIC on the contents, otherwise there's a fairly
good way to attack (say) compiled windows programs that get posted.
MIC?
There is definitely a big security risk here, in that any posted file can
be attacked by inserting a virus/trojan/whatever into one part. However,
that's not really any different than what can happen with any binary
posted anywhere on the Internet. For that matter, only a fool would
download binaries from USENET without doing all kinds of testing.
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