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This is not code as in "secret code for which you need a decoder ring". It is executable code that gets executed with one click inside your network, and with es
by beagle3 11y ago
This is not code as in "secret code for which you need a decoder ring". It is executable code that gets executed with one click inside your network, and with essentially full permissions.
Code that can go through is a bug. Usually a buffer overflow, but in this case, it's a specification bug back from the days when the world wasn't so networked.
Also, I think you meant steganography.
- DanBC 11y ago> It is executable code that gets executed with one click inside your network, and with essentially full permissions. At least 2 clicks, one of which is a warning. Although I accept the warnings are mostly pointless.
- xorcist 11y ago> back from the days when the world wasn't so networked. That's not it. Just read any magazine from that year. Everybody thought it was a terrible idea, just as autorun.exe was completely insane. Viruses was a huge problem at the time, and they spread via infected floppies or CDs and documents. So automatically running embedded code if possible even worse back then. But they went with it anyway. It's good as long as it moves the goal posts for the competition. The business case is not always the use case.