From: goedel@tezcat.com (Dietrich J. Kappe)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 95 10:32:48 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Netscape's random numbers
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>Congrats, nice job!

Yes, well done.

>The Netscape license explicitly prohibits decompiling (except where such
>prohibition is illegal).  When this hits the media it will be important
>to avoid being tarred with the "hacker breaks rules and breaks in" brush.
>More subtly, it's probably a bad idea to call into question the overall
>business model of client binaries on the net.
>
>Instead, emphasize importance of open code, public reviews, ability to
>link in your own code that meets public specs, etc.  All of these things
>the Internet was designed to do, and U.S. ITAR regulations are designed
>to prohibit (globally, anyway).  And also that the bad guys will never
>play by the rules.  And re-emphasize that solutions are possible, just
>that the U.S. government prevents them from being deployed in a global
>economy.

Before we go to the news, perhaps we should demonstrate the exploitation of
this hole. It would certainly make selling this story a whole lot easier.


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