1995-10-04 - [Fwd] Security Threat to Internet shopping (DT)

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From: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif )
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: Holger.Reif@PrakInf.TU-Ilmenau.DE (Holger Reif )
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 95 09:39:25 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: [Fwd] Security Threat to Internet shopping (DT)
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>Security threat to Internet shopping
>
>Daily Telegraph (paper edition), 3 October 1995, p. 12
>
>[...]
>However, users of Microsoft's Windows 95 have found that it ignores the
>security passwords on private electronic mail  sent or received using
>software other than Windows 95.

Never heard of this before, but it seems that MS assumes there's no mail
like windows'95 mail? 

If all use it, you have no holes any longer.

You or your partners don't use Windows'95? That's your problem not ours!


read you later  -  Holger Reif
http://remus.prakinf.tu-ilmenau.de/Reif/







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