Fuck. There's no excuse for some of this crap. How bout we stop litigating against Trojans and other spyware, at least as far as corporations are concerned. Or wait, they get a trojan and lose data then a CTO goes to jail instead. OK, not Cypherpunkly enough...OK, security or credit card company loses 100,000 cardnumbers to a trojan and an auto-posse forms to string up that company's CTO. Joking aside, anti-spyware legislation is making some of these companies awfully lazy. -TD
From: "J.A. Terranson" <measl@mfn.org> To: "cypherpunks@al-qaeda.net" <cypherpunks@jfet.org> CC: "'Cryptography'" <cryptography@metzdowd.com> Subject: Re: Trojan horse attack involving many major Israeli companies, executives Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 14:05:14 -0500 (CDT)
John Saylor wrote:
hi
( 05.05.30 15:34 +0200 ) Amir Herzberg:
See more info e.g. at http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/581790.html
an excellent tale [still unfolding]- no doubt coming to a bookstore or movie theatre near you real soon.
of course, it was never mentioned in the article, but they *had* to be running windows.
So, how long before someone, possibly even me, points out that all Checkpoint software is built in Israel?
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