From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 1998 22:54:28 +0800
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Subject: Airport security cracked by flaw [CNN]
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> X-within-URL: http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9802/08/security.reut/index.html

>            REPORT: COMPUTER DESIGN FLAW OPENS AIRPORTS TO TERRORISM
>                                        
>      graphic February 8, 1998
>      Web posted at: 1:25 p.m. EST (1825 GMT)
>      
>      NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The computer security systems that control
>      access to 40 airports worldwide through electronic badges have a
>      design flaw that could make them vulnerable to terrorism, The New
>      York Times reported Sunday.
>      
>      A California computer security consulting firm, MSB Associates,
>      found the flaw in December in a routine audit of a large California
>      financial services software company, the identity of which was not
>      disclosed, according to the newspaper.
>      
>      Government buildings, including that of the CIA, and prisons and
>      industries with sensitive military, drug or financial information or
>      material also use the system and are also vulnerable to attack, the
>      Times report said.

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