Reactive Security and Social Control
Lars Rasmusson, Andreas Rasmusson, Sverker Janson · 1996
A major security problem for a network oriented environment is executing untrusted code. Private information risks being disclosed or tampered with if unverified remote code manages to gain access to local resources. Since a program only shows to the user what it wants the user to see, it can hide some of its actual actions. This is the essence of a Trojan horse.