FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON CYPHERPUNKS A Publicly Available Announcement Hey folks! A challenge. Using only legal and ethical means that would not embarrass you at your IPO, and using only publicly available sources on the Internet, please describe in detail how you found: 1. Where and when "siockman@leland.stanford.EDU (Larry Schwimmer)" appeared in a publicly available source. NOTE: this is not Larry's real email address. 2. Where and when "sitn0001@leland.stanford.EDU (SITN Account 0001)" appeared in a publicly available source. 3. Robert Tharp's kerberos principal @ir.stanford.edu. Note: this nym has no email address or home directory, just a kerberos principal. 4. The current names and email addresses of all whowhere.com and parsecweb.com affiliates. Employees of whowhere.com and their families are not eligible for prizes. Current and former affiliates of Stanford University are not eligible for prizes, whether you use Stanford computers for the solution or not. You must be able to demonstrate your solution from a private ISP such as whowhere.com or netcom.com; solutions requiring other than publicly available access to any major university's computer system will be disqualified. To be eligible for prizes, I request that the source NOT be made publicly available until I have had a chance to make it unavailable. A consolation prize may be awarded to the first person who identifies whowhere.com's answers for challenges 1 and 2. This may not be the same answer as was given above. Void where prohibited by law. Your mileage may vary. Trix are for kids. On Sun, 28 Apr 1996, Gunjan Sinha <gunjan@parsecweb.com> wrote:
I am sorry if you misunderstood my previous email. We are ex-Stanford grad, not current students!
I apologize for assuming that your message was written in standard english, using the normal and customary (and publicly available) meanings of words such as, "WhoWhere? is an effort by a team from Stanford GSB and engineering school," and for assuming that the use of the Stanford name on a number of publicly available web pages indicated an active Stanford affiliation. In retrospect, I recognize that these were typographical errors, just like the four glaring HTML bugs and handful of security holes we've found so far (which are now publicly available information). Please take care to avoid such misunderstandings in the future by refraining from introducing yourselves in these ways, especially where such claims are likely to become publicly available information.
The WhoWhere? database is collected through a combination of technolofy, partnerships, and self-registrations by end-users.
Our content is from publicly available sources.
No, some of it is clearly not. Or if we do have such a serious security breach, then Stanford is violating Federal laws concerning the privacy of student records, and I would very much like to fix the problem, because I do not wish to go to prison. As I asked you and your technical droid before, please let me know how you obtained the "SITN Account" entries without delay. If your selection of publicly available information repositories is not considered publicly available information, then I would be happy to sign a nondisclosure agreement. The fact that I have signed such a nondisclosure agreement would, of course, become publicly available information. Please identify the publicly available source that associates the name Larry Schwimmer with the email address siockman@leland.Stanford.EDU. We believe that this association only happened once, where it would not have become publicly available information. I have every hope that we will be able to settle this to our mutual satisfaction privately. It sucks for everyone when disagreements such as this become publicly available information. Oh, there are some other problems with your site and its management, but I'm sure you'll be able to find those problems, because they have been posted as publicly available information. .signature publicly available