C Matthew Curtin (cmcurtin@megasoft.com) wrote:
People need to learn that the sort of snake oil that is being sold as "secure" just won't cut it. Your concern for the customers of Cybank is valid, however, so I propose something along these lines:
Announce, very publicly, such that every Cybanlk customer would hear about it in time, that you have cracked their hokey little non-crypto scheme, and that you intend to publish your work in a full-disclosure paper to be published on Month Day, Year. [...]
I chuckled when this whole Cybank thing started. Only a month or so ago, they had some funky bug in their mail system such that all their internal email was being cc'd to the First Virtual users' mailing list (and also to one poor individual). They were helpless and completely unable to figure it out, as we watched their (not very happy) internal messages float unrequested into our mailboxes. Seth --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seth I. Rich - seth@hygnet.com "Info-Puritan elitist crapola!!" Systems Administrator / Webmaster, HYGNet (pbeilard@direct.ca) Rabbits on walls, no problem.