I question that last comment. Pine was coded as an academic project, thus the code was heavily scrutinized.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Judge Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [hlcoders] (no subject) Brian A. Stumm wrote: >On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Jeff 'Kuja' Katz wrote: > > > >>Thunderbird is better than the included mozilla email client. >> >> > >I've yet to get a virus with my mail client. > >Pine via command line. > > I recall, from the eons ago, when I installed this under FreeBSD or OpenBSD, the port listed pine as having been discovered to contain a bug which an attacker could exploit by sending a carefully crafted email (which was fixed). They went on to explain that pine was so badly coded, that it was likely to contain other exploits and so therefore was not reccommended, and was therefore not part of the default install. Matt. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
