full-disclosure - New Attack on Secure Browsing

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From: snowhare at nihongo.org (Benjamin Franz)
Subject: New Attack on Secure Browsing

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004, Lyndon wrote:

> This thread is simply ludicrous.
> 

It's as silly as expecting someone to unzip an unknown encrypted zip file
email attachment using a password given in the email and then running the
extracted Microsoft Windows executable as a method of spreading a virus.

Downright silly. Would never work. Ludicrous that anyone would even 
attempt it.

-- 
Benjamin Franz

Catapultam habeo. 

Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis ad capul tuum saxum immane mittam.

(Translation: "I have a catapult. Give me all the money or I will fling 
 an enormous rock at your head.")
                                        Henry Beard