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["NewsScan" ] NewsScan Daily, 20 October 1999 ("Above The Fold")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Wed Oct 20 14:51:45 1999
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 20 Oct 1999 14:44:23 -0400
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I thought this would be amusing.
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:06:02 -0700
Subject: NewsScan Daily, 20 October 1999 ("Above The Fold")
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NewsScan Daily, 20 October 1999 ("Above The Fold")
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[...]
CRYPTOGRAPHERS CRACK AMAZON CONTEST CODE
Cryptography buffs succeeded in deciphering the meaning behind five lines of
seemingly random numbers just hours after Amazon.com launched a two-week
contest to promote sales of books on the subject. Hacker members of the
Slashdot.org site made short work of the task after one software developer
discerned that the seemingly random numbers matched up with ISBN numbers
used to reference books. Meanwhile, some Slashdot participants thought the
contest was much too easy. "This contest is supposed to be winnable by
people who get stumped by crossword puzzles in USA Today, not by some
paranoid lunatic that uses Ordo Novus Seclorum to read his e-mail and
encrypts his grocery list so that no one will find out he's buying stinky
cheese and miniature vegetables." (Wired.com 19 Oct 99)
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,31988,00.html
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