Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

No more dangerous than a soup recipe?

Author:Ken MacLeod
Posted:5/6/2000; 8:29:37 AM
Topic:scriptingNews outline for 5/6/2000
Msg #:17074 (In response to 17070)
Prev/Next:17073 / 17075

You may someday see a SOAP packet in an email enclosure, but until a mechanism is added to run the packet, it's no more dangerous than a soup recipe.

That there'd be applications to run this stuff seems implicit. You're right that there's nothing inherently safe or unsafe about a protocol (it's just bits on a wire like anything else), it's the typical usage of the protocols and the applications that use it that matter.

But just saying "don't use it if you don't like it" isn't a good, broad solution. My local gas/electric utility's customer service centers were shut down by the ILOVEYOU worm, it could have been worse. Broad, effective security solutions are important to everybody.

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