[41704] in Cypherpunks
Re: Postscript in Netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Spero)
Wed Oct 18 12:46:02 1995
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 09:40:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: "Dr. Frederick B. Cohen" <fc@all.net>
Cc: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9510181233.AA12939@all.net>
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
>
> You claim that you provide secure net access for the purposes of
> transactions - which you don't - and you have gotten an enormous amount
> of money from people who don't understand these issues based, at least
> in part, on your false claims. Some people might interpret that as fraud.
>
Well, assuming that US law follows british practice in this regard, it
would seem that those people would be wrong- to prove fraud, you would
need to show intent to commit fraud, and it's been obvious for a long long
time that Netscape's security holes are the result of lack of experience
rather than malice of any kind. Would you have a security expert write
your graphics engine?
Microsoft is the Evil Empire; Netscape is a Naughty Principality.
Simon
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(defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n"
(cond ((= y 0) 1) ((= y 1) (mod x n))
((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n))
(t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))
