At 12:37 AM 9/23/95, Jim Ray wrote:
I'm with Lucky, let's go after Netscape itself. They deserve it more than their customers do, and they would then have a strong motivation <evil grin> to fix it. The press release would then *only* involve Netscape, and maybe a few C-punks could buy a few Netscape puts ;) and donate the bucks made for something like Tim's stable remailer.
I think we need to be very careful not to do things like we have a vendetta against Netscape. Netscape has a Cypherpunks presence, of course, and His Andreeseeness was even on the list for a while last December. Today's "San Jose Mercury News" had a photo of Goldberg and Wagner and a fairly long article about how James Barksdale, Pres. of Netscape, plans to hire them to help improve Netscape's security. He even made noises about thanking them for their cracking efforts, and said improving Netscape's security is a high priority. It's sort of hard for me to imagine a company being more "Cypherpunks friendly" than this. (I mean about the issues that interest us.) So, keep on "attacking" Netscape (kudos to Ray, by the way, though I've seen Netscape bomb on certain sites, as with the Cypherpunks archive site, as several of us noted a few months ago...probably a different problem, but indicative that Netscape can be corrupted). But let's be careful not to convey any flavor of this being a vendetta. --Tim May Notice: Don't expect me to reply to trivial questions and complaints. ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."