Re: Re: Security considerations in Mathematica&J/Link
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- Subject: [mg25146] Re: [mg25131] Re: Security considerations in Mathematica&J/Link
- From: Murphy <werner.schuster at netway.at>
- Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:25:40 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
At 03:14 10.09.00 -0400, you wrote: >Surely someone has thought a little about it; otherwise >you could try breaking into WRI's integrator program. For example, > >Integrate [ ShellCommand["rm *"], x] > > >In a "purely functional" subset of Mathematica you could do >no input or output, you could not assign any values. Then if >you limit the amount of time and space consumed you are on the >right track. I suggest you remove ALL functionality not needed >by clearing function definitions of irrelevant commands. > >But you seem to be interested in making a browser out of >Mathematica... why care if he wrecks his own machine? >RJF it's the other way around, I try to turn the Browser into a Mathematica FrontEnd; so you can access notebooks over the web (Internet/Intranet); this could eg. be used for Training; instead of setting up mathematica on every single computer in a classroom, you put it on one computer (the server) and the students can access the prepared notebooks using their browser and work with them just like with the real FrontEnd; or say you wrote some mathematica package that you want to sell; you could put this notebook on your webserver (+ the software that connects mathematica to the web) and allow users to test your package (like a demoversion); but that are just possible ideas, at the moment its not more than a little non-serious experiment (just to make sure I wont have 50 laywers standing at my door tomorrow trying to sue me for license abuse ;-) ) murphee