[IP] more on It seems that even "secure" financial transactions with Internet Explorer aren't safe
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From: Peter G Capek <capek@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx, geodog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:42:57 -0400
Subj: Re: [IP] It seems that even "secure" financial transactions with
Internet Explorer aren't safe
Seems to me that the more interesting question is how a .gif file morphs
into something other than an image... Apparently, this was achieved
through the use of the ".chm" exploit. another known IE problem. It
seems, then, that no advice of the form "don't download or execute xxx
files or view xxx web pages" is
safe. Only Ken Thompson's "Don't trust any software that wasn't ENTIRELY
created by someone you trust" (my paraphrase) dictum is worth anything.
And that's a hard thing to do in practice, of course.
Peter Capek
Peter G. Capek
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598-0218
(+1 914) 945-1250 IBM Tieline: 8-862-1250 Fax: X 4426
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