[39515] in Cypherpunks
Re: NYT on Netscape Crack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Tue Sep 19 22:22:16 1995
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 22:16:31 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com, owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
Cc: hallam@w3.org
>I take a long term view of security. Basically I don't trust security software
>until it has been released in a stable condition for a few years.
Really? So I assume you won't be using an ATM card to buy gasoline until
the next millenium?
>Visa and Mastercard will be comming out with a spec which will have very tight
>requirements for implementations.
I thought it was Visa and MC and Microsoft are coming out with an
implementation, and then will get around to releasing the specs.
One of V or MC also said that the only approved way to do Internet
commerce with their card was to use this new system.
/r$
