Recently, Dan Schafer wrote: > (One of these days I'll understand the > mentality vandals who derive joy from merely disrupting the lives and > sanity of others. On second thought, I hope I never do understand that. > It's abominable.)
A dark thought that has been lurking in my world-weary mind is the risk we take by downloading stacks and running them on our machines. As more and more folks discover Revolution, there are more and more things to share and check out. So far, we have a cozy, friendly community of users and none of us would think of using Rev for anything disruptive, or worse. I feel pretty confident downloading things from the sites of people we have come to "know" here on the list. But we all know very well that some innocent looking little "Christmas Message" stack could conceal anything from a prank to a disaster. With Rev's internet capabilities, I suppose it could even be used to launch a worm. So what can we do, other than only run stacks from reputable sources? I know there's no way to scan a stack and tell if it's evil. Would it be possible to devise a kind of sandbox to test new stacks in, that would prevent and report on attempts to write to the disk drive, send something over the net, etc? Hoping for a better world, Jim Lyons _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
