1995-11-28 - Re:ETH_ic?

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From: mp@moonmac.com (Michael Pearce)
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Message Hash: 79f07c32c91e21e4eec7b28cbfec3f0dac8ac22ce6be4aa7d3d96a370f59b248
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UTC Datetime: 1995-11-28 06:53:20 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:53:20 +0800

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From: mp@moonmac.com (Michael Pearce)
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 14:53:20 +0800
To: Alan Olsen <alano@teleport.com>
Subject: Re:ETH_ic?
Message-ID: <v02120d04ace02917b7e4@[204.119.62.251]>
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Nb5s $bp2s writes,

>>      ...the case has killed the hacker ethic. "If I saw someone
>>      on the Internet with a security weakness, at this point
>>      I would be reluctant to act the Good Samaritan and
>>      report it," said Jeffrey Kegler, an independent software
>>      consultant in Sunnyvale Calif. "If I saw weakness in
>>      Intel's machine, I'd keep it to myself."

If I saw a weakness in Intel's machine I would happily inform the company
in the safest way possible: posting it to Cypherpunks,
alt.destroy.microsoft, comp.sys.intel and any other appropriate newsgroup,
via anonymous server. I'm sure the information would wind up in the correct
hands _eventually_.

Not that I'm suggesting anything, of course.

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