[48518] in Cypherpunks
Re: CONTEST: Name That Program! (no-brainer)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (cjs)
Mon Jan 29 16:42:09 1996
From: cjs@netcom.com (cjs)
To: nsb@nsb.fv.com (Nathaniel Borenstein)
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:29:17 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <sl3GafqMc50eQWYD0N@nsb.fv.com> from "Nathaniel Borenstein" at Jan 29, 96 03:10:19 pm
> As you may have read in my previous message, First Virtual has developed
> and demonstrated a program that completely undermines all known schemes
> for using software-encrypted credit cards on the Internet. More details
> are avialable at http://www.fv.com/ccdanger.
>
> That was the easy part.
***ROFL***
This "pre-encryption" program is not a virus. It attaches to the
keyboard driver and captures keystrokes from the keyboard as they are
typed -- BEFORE they can be encrypted by the application encryption
software. First Virtual scientists note that credit a check-digit. A
greater danger is that passwords are also as easily captured.
***ROFL***
This has got to be the no-brainer of the century.
REad teh rest of their press release at:
http://www.fv.com:80/ccdanger/announce.html
You'd think they had discovered the cure for aids or something. =)
Christopher
