From: MIGUELDIAZ@megaweb.com ()
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 95 18:38:32 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: `Hack Microsoft' challenge is NYT Computer News Daily's top story
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>Date:	Mon, 02 Oct 1995 10:34:32 -0400
>From:	Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com>
>Sender:	owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
>To:	cypherpunks@toad.com
>bcc:	Lehman Brothers Inc.
>Subject:	`Hack Microsoft' challenge is NYT Computer News
> Daily's top story
>
>See http://nytsyn.com/live/Lead/275_100295_074418_19095.html
>
>  MICROSOFT BECOMES NEW TARGET OF HACKING CHALLENGE (10/2) 
>
>  By HEATHER GREEN c.1995 Bloomberg Business News 
>
>  BERKELEY, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp. has been chosen as a
> new target
>  for computer hackers.
>
>  Community Connexion, an Internet service provider that
> last week
>  promised a free T-shirt to anyone who found a flaw in
> Netscape
>  Communications Corp.'s software, extended the challenge
> Friday to
>  include holes in Microsoft products.
>
>  . . .
>

I don't know about everyone else, but a T-shirt seems a very 
small reward for uncovering a "hole" in the encryption 
algorithm of Microsoft products.  Does that apply to any and 
all bugs?? i.e. not necessarily security problems??