Trojan horse possible with news readers

[Todd Day]

In article <1627 at valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> badri at valhalla.ee.rochester.edu (Badri Lokanathan) writes:
~The only safeguard is to disable modeline.

vi on the UNIXPC allows this behaviour, yet I see no way to disable it!
It defaults to modelines, yet, there is no command to disable it.

And the UNIXPC is supposed to be SVR3...
 

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