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Re: ALERT: PGP removed from soda archive site
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy C. May)
Mon Jun 7 22:23:07 1993
From: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 93 18:52:29 PDT
Cc: tcmay@netcom.com (Timothy C. May)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.05z.9306071725.A2861-9100000@carson.u.washington.edu>; from "Al Billings" at Jun 7, 93 5:57 pm
Al Billings wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1993, Eric Hughes wrote:
>
> > The ftp site at soda will no longer be able to distribute PGP, I'm
> > afraid. It appears that CERT informed someone on campus that
> > "pirated" software was available on soda. The word came down, and the
> > directory has been chown'd root and has had permissions removed.
>
> What does CERT stand for again?
Computer Emergency Response Team, set up in the wake of the Morris
worm in 1988. They meet to discuss security threats.
BTW, I just downloaded MacPGP from soda and saw no problems. I didn't
try ordinary PGP, as I assumed the circumstance Eric mentioned had
changed and PGP was once again available.
-Tim
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