MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

Security: is "Good Times" now for real?

The Good Times scare has been around for years, constantly re-appearing under a new name. Until recently it was just an unwarranted scare ("don't read any message with subject 'kumquats'; it'll destroy your hard disk and rot your brain!").
It's now possible for this to happen!
- - if you have java and javascript enabled by default (don't!)
- - if you have an older version of netscape
- - if netscape is set up show attachments "inline" (don't!)
In general, consider the source of an attachment in a MIME message before reading it into an application. Hopefully, we can trust mail from within NRAO (but watch for forged headers!). Be careful with anonymous or free web-based mail addresses such as hotmail, yahoo, etc.