[41829] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape rewards are an insult
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aleph One)
Thu Oct 19 20:48:23 1995
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 18:23:04 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aleph One <aleph1@dfw.net>
To: anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510191722.KAA06757@jobe.shell.portal.com>
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On Thu, 19 Oct 1995 anonymous-remailer@shell.portal.com wrote:
> > NETSCAPE CLIENT APIS (NCAPIS) 2.0
> Generally, we don't routinely trust every other computer, foreign or
> domestic on the Internet to manipulate us by remote control. This is
> as basic as the idea that we don't give out our PIN numbers with our
> banking cards to anyone who asks us.
Have you actually read the stuff? The NCAPIS is not on by default.
You *must* enable it by tellling it to which port to listen on.
Further more Mosaic had a remote control API before Netscape did.
