On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:23:25AM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
> Given the obviously poor state of the code in Kevin's parser, I wonder
> if a carefully crafted message cause cause a buffer overflow and cause
> him to execute arbitrary code... Running "rm -rf /" in Kevin's head
> might be a bad thing (or a good thing, depending on who you ask...)
don't be silly. i renamed /bin/rm *years* ago.
kevin
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