[Info-vax] ANN: VMS Mosaic 4.2

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/26/2018 9:00 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> In article <b16b0559-d590-4490-be3f-a0a13f8762c8 at googlegroups.com>,
> Jim  <mckinneyj at saic.com> wrote:
>> On Friday, January 26, 2018 at 12:44:18 AM UTC-5, roy... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I seems that both http://vaxa.wvnet.edu/ and ftp://alpha.wvnet.edu/ are down.
>>
>> This thread that you just woke up is more than a decade old so it's perhaps not surprising that those old host systems are no longer available...
> 
> ... which is likely good since Mosaic's html parser will crash within seconds
> after looking at a typical modern website...

Which also says something about the security level.

Non-malicious input causing crashes often mean that malicious input can
do things it was not supposed to do.

Arne