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1994-08-29 - Re: Announcing Bellcore’s Trusted Software Integrity (Betsi) System

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From: “L. Todd Masco” <cactus@bb.com>
To: brains@male.org
Message Hash: 86414f5999f19728a1e47971815445cda6409b77ca967be4a97c5370a6039669
Message ID: <199408292212.SAA08717@bb.com>
Reply To: <Chameleon.4.01.1.940829165513.merriman@anybody.metronet.com.metronet.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-08-29 22:07:59 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 15:07:59 PDT

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From: "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@bb.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 94 15:07:59 PDT
To: brains@male.org
Subject: Re: Announcing Bellcore's Trusted Software Integrity (Betsi) System
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.4.01.1.940829165513.merriman@anybody.metronet.com.metronet.com>
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brains@male.org writes:
 > Or to warn potential virus "authors" that *their* anonymity is no longer 
 > assured - not a bad thing. Not enough to justify the rest of it, IMHO, but 
 > certainly not Evil Incarnate (not to be flinging misinterpretations or 
 > aspersions :-)

Certainly not enough to justify the rest: Can you name one example of an
 author of a package including some virus?  Not someone putting one
 post-production (individual signing will prevent that), but the original
 author?

It's a straw man.
--
L. Todd Masco  | "Which part of 'shall not be infringed' didn't
cactus@bb.com  |   you understand?"

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