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Re: FV's blatant double standards

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Pettitt)
Mon Feb 5 21:08:42 1996

Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 18:00:35 -0800
To: "Simson L. Garfinkel" <simsong@vineyard.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com,
        nit@chron.com, rishab@dxm.org, simsong@vineyard.net
From: John Pettitt <jpp@software.net>

At 08:39 PM 2/5/96 -0500, Simson L. Garfinkel wrote:
>Yes, clearly if you are not concerned about missing 50-75% of First Virtual's 
>users, this attack will work just fine.
>-simson
>
>
Who cares - if 25 to 50% of a systems users are
vulnderable doesn't that make it weak ?

John Pettitt, jpp@software.net
VP Engineering, CyberSource Corporation, 415 473 3065
 "Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man
  doesn't have to experience it." - Max Frisch


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