At 4:51 PM 9/21/95, Joe Tardo wrote:
I can really empathize with what the developers at Netscape must be going through, but the 'social good' of raising security flaws to the level of the front page of the NYT is hard to deny. Rather than saying "security through obscurity is bad" you can point to a precedent of the consequences of being found out.
Furthermore, Ian Goldberg's message on Sunday night was a factual, unsensationalized report of something he and Wagner discovered. The very essence of objective reporting, I thought. That so many reporters found it a newsworthy, even headline-worthy, story is related to other factors. --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."