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Fwd: FC: NSA tour & report from Usenix: Win98 and Outlook
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Declan McCullagh)
Thu Aug 26 11:04:05 1999
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:43:28 -0400
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From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
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>[BTW politechnicals in DC might be interested in a post-Usenix outing to
>the NSA cryptomuseum at Fort Meade scheduled for Friday ayem. Departure
>probably from the Marriott hotel. Peter Gutmann last month contacted the
>NSA to ask if tours of the computing facilities and research sections were
>available. The laconic response, left in his voicemail box: "We're an
>intelligence agency, we don't do tours." --Declan]
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/21442.html
>
> Locking Windows' Backdoors
> by Declan McCullagh
>
> 3:00 a.m. 26.Aug.99.PDT
> WASHINGTON, DC -- If you use Microsoft
> Outlook, be warned. Over a dozen bugs in
> Windows 98 let malicious virus writers and
> meddlesome peeping Toms view or erase
> any file on your hard drive.
>
> At a computer security conference
> Wednesday afternoon, an expert
> demonstrated how malcontents can send
> apparently innocuous email with hidden
> commands that -- if opened using certain
> email programs -- will give an intruder
> complete access to a Windows computer.
>
> [....]
>
>
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