At 11:14 PM 12/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
X-Sender: okeefe@olympus.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:32:32 -0800 To: N E W S R E L E A S E <IPS@olympus.net> From: "Steve O'Keefe" <IPS@olympus.net> Subject: NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed
BREAKING NEWS For Release Thursday, December 12, 1996
MAJOR WEB SECURITY FLAW REVEALED
(New York) -- Edward Felten, head of Princeton University's Safe Internet Programming Team (SIP), today revealed a major security flaw in the Internet's World Wide Web. Called "web spoofing," the breach allows any Internet server to place itself between a user and the rest of the web. In that middle position, the server may observe, steal and alter any information passing between the unfortunate browser and the web.
(deletia) Wait a minuite; This sounds like an opportunity! I see a possibility for a machine confugured to tx/rx PGP encrypted packets to re-broadcast them with the machines IP. This would become an anonymous ISP