[89664] in Cypherpunks
Re: Mixed Messages / Re: F00FC7C8 Kills P5 AND Re: Major security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Lawrence)
Sat Nov 8 20:26:24 1997
In-Reply-To: <199711082233.XAA11819@basement.replay.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 16:55:56 -0700
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@acm.org>
Reply-To: Jamie Lawrence <jal@acm.org>
At 11:33 PM +0100 on 11/8/97, Anonymous wrote:
> Eric Cordian wrote:
> > In comp.sys.intel, the keeper of the Intel Secrets Website,
> > rcollins@slip.net (Robert Collins) writes this absolutely amazing
> > paragraph:
> > > If nobody knew about this problem, nobody would be affected
> > > by it.
> > > No, I had no desire to publicize the bug.
> We at the Electronic Fraud Foundation also have no desire for these
> bugs to be publicized. We're making a goddamn fortune off of them.
> (Damn near as much as we're making off of our remailer-donation scam.)
Hope you're making a kill(1)ing.
Too bad any semi-intelligent entity with access to Alta-Vista can find
enough info to exploit this bug, right now...
Here's to hoping the remailer scam works out better -
-j
--
"This analogy is like lifting yourself by your own bootstraps."
-Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Jamie Lawrence jal@acm.org
