At 6:55 PM -0700 9/9/97, John Young wrote:
We've received from anonymous a report on breaking Mondex's pilot system by TNO along with a confidential 1996 memo describing the break: .... Included is a letter from the Bank of New Zealand to Electronic Frontier Canada attempting to suppress publication of the memo.
You mean the way <elided> had lawyers send threatening letters to <elided> warning him not to further publicize the claimed security flaws in <elided>, the security product sold by <elided>? I myself received a phone call from <elided>, warning me to not to even make reference to the rumors that <elided> had flaws in it. Some of you know what I mean. There's even a chance this vague note here will cause <elided> to again contact me, warning me that even such <elisions> are not good enough for them. And I'm not at all surprised that those with financial interests in products are attempting to supress technical or competitive analysis reports. It's become the way of the world to hire lawyers and barristers to intimidate whomever they can. Fortunately, this is what remailers are so useful for. (Though the lawyers and cops are going after the remailers, as several recent cases have shown.) And the execrable copyright new world order would make such reverse engineering illegal in many cases. More reason to nuke it with remailers. --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."