Re: [SLUG] Sony, Rootkits and DRM

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 22:14:26 EST


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:44:39PM -0500, botteman wrote:

> Mavrick wrote:
>
> >
> > "*As soon as you have agreed to be bound by the terms and
> >conditions of the EULA, this CD will automatically install *a small
> >proprietary software program (the ???SOFTWARE???) onto YOUR COMPUTER."
> >
>
> Say ... how did you slip that colored text through a plain-text-only
> list server??

Base 64 encoding. If you look at the raw email, you'll see it looks like
gobbledegook, but there are content separator lines indicating the
content in base 64 encoded. Slips past the HTML filters.

Paul
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