[39479] in Cypherpunks
Re: NYT on Netscape Crack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Grant Edwards)
Tue Sep 19 15:44:25 1995
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 15:38:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@Glue.umd.edu>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199509190355.XAA01329@frankenstein.piermont.com>
On Mon, 18 Sep 1995, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Not, of course, that they disclosed it before -- it was found by
> reverse engineering the distributed executable. Not, of course, that
> they have a choice in the matter of whether to disclose it -- they
> will be "disclosing" how its done as soon as they release the
> code. Not, of course, that security through obscurity does any good --
> it just magnifies the pain.
Well, now that Cypherpunks have again shown yet another hole in Netscape
security, I think we are one pretty good standing to demand
ACCESS TO SOURCE CODE FOR NETSCAPE,
so we can work to help make Netscape "pretty good". Any reporters
listening?
-Thomas
