[FWP] Mutating .sigs

[John Carter <john@netsys.co.za>]

Hmm, I have mentioned long ago that JAPH's are fundamentally
hazardous.  They can contain conceal things to wipe your disk. (Side
issue, whats the shortest japh-worm that can quietly attach itself to
your .sig file?)

Also its a pain to strip a JAPH out, contemplate its deeper meaning
and run it for every JAPH that goes by.

Now how about this...

An engine, that can be attached to procmail that automagically strips out
a JAPH and executes it in some kind of safe sandbox. 

Then, you haven't voted on it before, you given a chance to rate it
from 1 to 10. Thereafter it is included as your .sig according to some
weighting (freshness, voted value etc.)

Thus these .sig memes can more easily (and harmlessly) spread and mutate
across the 'net. 

One would need some highly terse language like perl/tk, but in some way
sanitized to prevent the possibility of malicious damage. (Can we ride the
Tainting stuff for this?)

Any suggestions?


John Carter

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