Slaying Gould dragon with a wooden

[Larry Campbell]

In article <2481 at phri.UUCP> roy at phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but why are block-mode
>terminals a security problem?

They're not all security holes, but the ones that have the following
pair of escape-sequence driven commands are:

    1.	"Put the following string in your buffer." (say, "rm -rf *")

    2.	"Send the buffer to the host."

On such a terminal, one cute mail message can ruin your whole day.  :-)
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