On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
You claim that you provide secure net access for the purposes of transactions - which you don't - and you have gotten an enormous amount of money from people who don't understand these issues based, at least in part, on your false claims. Some people might interpret that as fraud.
Well, assuming that US law follows british practice in this regard, it would seem that those people would be wrong- to prove fraud, you would need to show intent to commit fraud, and it's been obvious for a long long time that Netscape's security holes are the result of lack of experience rather than malice of any kind. Would you have a security expert write your graphics engine? Microsoft is the Evil Empire; Netscape is a Naughty Principality. Simon ---- (defun modexpt (x y n) "computes (x^y) mod n" (cond ((= y 0) 1) ((= y 1) (mod x n)) ((evenp y) (mod (expt (modexpt x (/ y 2) n) 2) n)) (t (mod (* x (modexpt x (1- y) n)) n))))