At 10:41 AM 8/25/97 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
Interestingly, many of the European workers looked on the monetary award with disdain - they participated 'to show Internet user solidarity', and other such reasons. Also, many were using university owned machines, and were legally constrained from accepting money earned from their use.
I am sure the university will make an exception to the rule once a $1M check for the regents arrives. The Internet idealists are your base for any distributed crack. But the cracks that come next are too complex to be performed by just your base. As in an election, you have to reach beyond your base to win. The students can show their solidarity. It will require tempting cash offers before large scale distributed cracks can suck cycles from the millions of computers in other environments. --Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com> PGP encrypted mail preferred. DES is dead! Please join in breaking RC5-56. http://rc5.distributed.net/