From: Jamie Lawrence <jal@acm.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 1997 09:08:06 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Mixed Messages / Re: F00FC7C8 Kills P5 AND Re: Major securityflaw in Cybercash 2.1.2 (fwd)
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At 11:33 PM +0100 on 11/8/97, Anonymous wrote:


> Eric Cordian wrote:
> > In comp.sys.intel, the keeper of the Intel Secrets Website,
> > rcollins@slip.net (Robert Collins) writes this absolutely amazing
> > paragraph:
> > > If nobody knew about this problem, nobody would be affected
> > > by it.
> > > No, I had no desire to publicize the bug.

> We at the Electronic Fraud Foundation also have no desire for these
> bugs to be publicized. We're making a goddamn fortune off of them.
> (Damn near as much as we're making off of our remailer-donation scam.)

Hope you're making a kill(1)ing.

Too bad any semi-intelligent entity with access to Alta-Vista can find
enough info to exploit this bug, right now...

Here's to hoping the remailer scam works out better -

-j

--
"This analogy is like lifting yourself by your own bootstraps."
                                         -Douglas R. Hofstadter
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Jamie Lawrence                                      jal@acm.org