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Re: Insecurity Section of the Internet Handbook

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Loofbourrow)
Fri Oct 13 17:54:40 1995

Errors-To: cpadmin@toad.com
From: Nathan Loofbourrow <loofbour@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:47:58 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510131209.NAA20556@utopia.hacktic.nl>

nobody@replay.com writes:
 > For zoetrope, and others curious about the Insecurity
 > section of the Internet Handbook, we pass along this
 > Yellow Pages advert-insert comp sec teaser from
 > SAIC -- with only dribbles of cryptography. The puffery
 > appears to be artfully fattened and out-of-date. Like most
 > security porkers, SAIC sells its nitrated sec services
 > dearly (security by deep pockets of the fearful engorgers)
 > while feigning Net public-spirit to mask IP search and
 > steal. In a telling slight, SAIC does not cite outturned-
 > pockets, beef jerky Cypherpunks.

Anonymous remailers are great, but I'm not sure how much good they do
if you have (or, I suppose, you are a brilliant imitator of) the
unmistakeable writing style of John Young.

nathan

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