[39475] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Hackers"-- brief review and anecdote...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Tue Sep 19 15:28:55 1995
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: bdavis@thepoint.net (Brian Davis)
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 11:28:58 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: mark@unicorn.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.D-G.3.91.950919135026.18165A-100000@dg.thepoint.net> from "Brian Davis" at Sep 19, 95 01:53:24 pm
>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 1995, Rev. Mark Grant wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 1995, Brian Davis wrote:
> >
> > > Phill obviously presents one point of view, vigorously and well. What do
> > > the rest of you think about a teen who, say, busts into a .edu site,
> > > plays with the files, and ultimately brings the system down entirely for
> > > 36 hours? Fun and games? Send him to his room, sans modem? Prosecute
> > > him? Have a TLA hire him???
> >
> > If it wasn't for ITAR the Net would already have secure encryption and
> > authentication, and most such hacker attacks would be impossible (or at
> > least impractical).
> >
> > Mark
>
> The non-responsive answer is stricken from the record. :-)
> You mean "secure" as Netscape was secure from sameer et al.?
>
The first two hacks listed on my web page were made possible
because of ITAR. Without ITAR Netscape would not have been suspectible
to this attack.
Two out of three fits my definition of "most".
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