[81814] in Cypherpunks
Re: FCPUNX:Netscape Security Flaw is a Feature
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jamesd@echeque.com)
Sat Jun 14 14:21:06 1997
From: jamesd@echeque.com
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 22:47:55 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>, Filtered Cypherpunks List <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Reply-To: jamesd@echeque.com
At 09:33 PM 6/12/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
> According to Netscape spokesmen, this feature was added to the kernel of
> Mosaic, then Navigator, in 1993, as part of the Clipper Key Recovery
> Program. As James Clarke put it an interview tonight on MSNBC, "Dorothy
> Denning asked us to insert the "remote read" capabilities to ensure that
> the legitimate needs of law enforcement are met. No person cruising the Web
> has any expectation of privacy, as even Declan McCullagh has pointed out."
>
> Marc Rotenberg commented, "Privacy at the individual user level is
> unimportant, just so long as a Privacy Ombudsman can decide on the
> legitimate needs of law enforcement."
Please cut the spoofing, or add visible indication of when you are
spoofing for the benefit of the less well informed amongst our
audience.
I suggest that any spoof you write should come not from Tim May, but
from Class B Citizen Unit 8387 Tim May.
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