[117197] in Cypherpunks
$50K reward gimmick
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Sat Aug 28 02:03:33 1999
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:50:02 -0700
To: Sean Roach <roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net>
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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At 09:00 PM 8/27/99 , Sean Roach wrote:
>At 08:48 PM 8/26/99 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>...
> >And the providers of the service are so confident about their
> >system's security they are offering $50 000 to anyone who can
> >hack it.
>They used to sell frames that you put on your camera to photograph
>your screen. I wonder of the makers of this product would count a
>poloroid as a crack.
No - it's much worse than that. They don't want to just see a
break/exploit, they expect you to decrypt a single ciphertext which you
must request specially from them, which is a pretty poor test for learning
about the security of the system as a whole.
See <http://www.1on1mail.com/k50000.html>.
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Greg Broiles
gbroiles@netbox.com
PGP: 0x26E4488C
