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Edupage, 12 October 1995 (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Oct 13 22:23:14 1995
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 04:16:55 PDT
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> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:22:54 -0400 (EDT)
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> NETWORK SECURITY
> The Internet has a well-known inherent security weakness due to its use of
> the NFS (Network File System) protocol, which does not have any way of
> determining whether a file or message has been altered during transmission.
> But executives at Netscape Communications say they will make changes in the
> Netscape browser software to allow a recipient of a downloaded program to
> check to see if it's been tampered with. (New York Times 11 Oct 95 C3) The
> company has also announced a "Bugs Bounty" program offering $1,000 to the
> first person who can identify a major security bug in the new beta version
> of its Netscape browser software. (Wall Street Journal 11 Oct 95 B6)
>
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