From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 12:57:37 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: A message from Joe Six-Pack
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Well, the original sender of this is actually anything but "Joe
Six-Pack"; his taste in beer is well-developed, and he's no moron.
This is, however, an interesting take on the Netscape thing from a
non-cypherpunk.  He came across the Community ConneXion press release
and responded:

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From: XXXXX
Subject: Re: Fwd: HackNetscape promotion (fwd)

>For Immediate Release 
>Contact: sameer@c2.org 510-601-9777 
> 
>COMMUNITY CONNEXION OFFERS REWARD FOR EXPOSING ENCRYPTION FLAWS 
> 
>Sept 19 1995 - Community ConneXion ...

Am I the only one who finds this silly?

All this fuss about credit card encryption is such BS.  My totally
unencrypted credit card number is in the hands of brain-dead minimum-wage
waitrons and green-haired retail clerks dozens of times a week with no
encryption.  Gas station attendants, restaurant clerks, supermarkets and
banks have the number, and an unscrupulous type could use it and hose me at
any time.  I've had credit cards for 15 years and nothing like that has ever
happened.  If it does, I'm out $50 and a bunch of pain in the butt phone calls.

So the thought of some geek with a LAN sniffer and too much time on his
hands sucking simply encrypted numbers off the internet does not exactly
make my heart go pitter-pat.

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