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SECURITY ALERT: Password protection bug in Netscape 2.0b3

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lincoln D. Stein)
Mon Dec 18 15:52:54 1995

Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 13:35:21 -0500
To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu, jcarroll@redman.canada.dg.com
From: lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu (Lincoln D. Stein)
Cc: tara@linkage.cpmc.columbia.edu
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu

For those who are having trouble reproducing this bug, there is a
demonstration at URL.  Note that this URL is _not_ a Netscape server, but
Apache.  The bug is on the browser side, not the server side.

        http://www-genome.wi.mit.edu/~lstein/unprotected/

Lincoln

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Director: Informatics Core
MIT Genome Center                               (617) 252-1916
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research     (617) 252-1902 FAX
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