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Re: Re: Re: Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia

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• Subject: [mg54006] Re: [mg53998] Re: [mg53956] Re: [mg53929] Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia
• From: Ian Roberts <mathgroup at quantica.com.au>
• Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 03:12:50 -0500 (EST)
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You may be able to use the webMathematica  security functions (see 
section  6.2 of the webMathematica  user guide) to check for malicious code.
Ian


DrBob wrote:

>The text version of a notebook is nearly unreadable in general, however -- if it includes exponents, Greek symbols, fractions, != symbols, et cetera. There'd be no way to look at it in a text editor (I think) and determine whether it had malicious content.
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>Bobby
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>On Sat, 5 Feb 2005 03:15:19 -0500 (EST), Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu> wrote:
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>>A Mathematica notebook is just a text file, after all.  So a good
>>precaution would be to open such a downloaded notebook in a text editor,
>>e.g., Notepad on Windows, before ever attempting to open the notebook in
>>Mathematica.
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>>David Bailey wrote:
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>>>This looks interesting, but how will you avoid the possibility that
>>>someone will upload a malicious notebook? I suppose it is a case of let
>>>the downloader beware?
>>>
>>>David Bailey
>>>dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk
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• References:
  • Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia
    • From: David Bailey <dave@Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
  • Re: Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia
    • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray@math.umass.edu>
  • Re: Re: Re: New Web Site for Mathematica Users using WikiMedia
    • From: DrBob <drbob@bigfoot.com>