Re: Netscape rewards are an insult

On Sat, 14 Oct 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:

I have a better idea. How about an open market in break-in software. We crack Netscape and offer the crack code to the highest bidder. Bids start at US$25K per hole. For the insult, Netscape has to outbid the competition by a factor of 2 to get the details of the hole. Here's how it works:

Funny that you mention it, the other mailing list (or rather set of lists) I'm on is devoted to a just such market system. The Idea Futures home page is at http://if.arc.ab.ca/~jamesm/IF/IF.shtml. You'll find a few familiar faces.