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Re: FBI-virus software cracks encryption wall
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Tue Nov 27 20:59:42 2001
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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 13:46:23 -0800
To: Gilles Gravier <Gilles.Gravier@Sun.com>, Jei <jei@alpha.hut.fi>
From: Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com>
Cc: UKCrypto <ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
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At 8:54 AM -0800 11/27/01, Gilles Gravier wrote:
>Oh... FBI thing... so do they expect to have a version working for
>Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris (had to name that one), Mac, Palm,
>BeOS (OK... they're dead)... and who knows what else?
>
>If they only cover Windoze (which is likely) the result will be that
>the criminal / paranoid / privacy freak / hacker community will just
>plain migrate to another OS... Which would be good for the world,
>don't you think?
There are a lot of interesting parallels between biological systems and
computer systems. One of them is that a virus can spread like wildfire in
a monoculture. Diversity is good for both kinds of systems.
Cheers - Bill
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