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Re: FV Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Software Encryption of Credit Cards

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Zawinski)
Mon Jan 29 23:15:37 1996

To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jamie Zawinski <jwz@netscape.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 20:05:24 -0800

Rich Salz wrote:
> 
> >It's considerably more than that.  Please read on.
> 
> No, Nathaniel, it is not.  You watch keystrokes and record the ones you're
> interested in.  This technique has interesting possibilities, but all your
> PR screaming won't make it anything more than what it is.
> 
> How interesting are these possibilities?  It's hard to say.  

I'll bet they could get a patent on it...  There's probably some
money to be made with that approach.

	== Jamie

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