[81838] in Cypherpunks
Re: e$: Skins vs. Shirts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Sun Jun 15 04:59:38 1997
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 01:26:06 -0700
From: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Tom Weinstein <tomw@netscape.com>
Robert Hettinga wrote:
>
> Adam, above, is speculating about the mechanics of a Netscape security
> hole, which, two years ago, would have gotten someone like Ian
> Goldberg a grand and a t-shirt, but probably only after they had
> published it on the net, just like Mssrs Goldberg and Wagner had to
> do, in order to get Netscape's attention. That included directions for
> how to replicate the problem. Back then, we wouldn't have been
> speculating about the mechanics of the hole, because people would be
> playing with it to see how it worked. As it is, latest hole was
> published in terms of its results only, and not its mechanics.
> Instead, those precious details were relased only to Netscape, and
> only for, NPR says, "an undisclosed sum".
Just to be clear, we didn't give the blackmailer any money. As Mike
Homer put it: "We don't bargain with terrorists."
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