[Mimedefang] application/evil MIME type (rfc3514)
Ole Craig
olc at cs.umass.edu
Thu Apr 17 09:03:00 EDT 2003
On 04/17/03 at 11:54, 'twas brillig and Tony Nugent scrobe:
> I came across this, which people may find interesting and
> potentially useful:
>
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514.txt
>
> This rfc describes the use of an "evil" flag in the IPv4 network
> packet headers. But it also briefly mentions a new mime type:
>
> An application/evil MIME type is defined for Web- or email-carried
> mischief. Other MIME types can be embedded inside of evil sections;
> this permit easy encoding of word processing documents with macro
> viruses, etc.
>
Pull the other one, it's got bells on.
(April 1 has long since passed... Save it for next year.)
Ole
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