On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Michael Coates wrote:
PAY-OFF TIME FOR BUG-BUSTERS, NETSCAPE PLEDGES "DOGFIGHT" Netscape Communications has awarded two software sleuths $1,000 each for finding security gaps in its Netscape Navigator 2.0 software. The company also awarded gifts to 50 other contestants in its "Bugs Bounty" program for identifying non-security problems. (Wall Street Journal 11 Dec 95 B7)
Can anyone tell me whether Ian Goldberg and David Wagner got their $25,000 from Netscape for finding the HUGE security flaws in Netscape's existing product line?? I can't remember whether they got anything or not ... (Sorry, but I've been away from the list. One of those, "fate of the Free World hangs in the balance" thingies ... ;-) Have Netscape and AT&T shown some holiday goodwill, or are they still engaged in their felonious freeloading foolishness? Alice de 'nonymous ... <an455120@anon.penet.fi> ...just another one of those... P.S. This post is in the public domain. C. S. U. M. O. C. L. U. N. E.