Re: `Hack Microsoft' challenge is NYT Computer News Daily's top story
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 10:34:32 -0400 From: Rick Busdiecker <rfb@lehman.com> Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com To: cypherpunks@toad.com bcc: Lehman Brothers Inc. Subject: `Hack Microsoft' challenge is NYT Computer News Daily's top story
See http://nytsyn.com/live/Lead/275_100295_074418_19095.html
MICROSOFT BECOMES NEW TARGET OF HACKING CHALLENGE (10/2)
By HEATHER GREEN c.1995 Bloomberg Business News
BERKELEY, Calif. -- Microsoft Corp. has been chosen as a new target for computer hackers.
Community Connexion, an Internet service provider that last week promised a free T-shirt to anyone who found a flaw in Netscape Communications Corp.'s software, extended the challenge Friday to include holes in Microsoft products.
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I don't know about everyone else, but a T-shirt seems a very small reward for uncovering a "hole" in the encryption algorithm of Microsoft products. Does that apply to any and all bugs?? i.e. not necessarily security problems??
MIGUEL DIAZ writes:
I don't know about everyone else, but a T-shirt seems a very small reward for uncovering a "hole" in the encryption algorithm of Microsoft products.
I don't know about anyone else, but helping to protect the confidential data of millions of users around the world seems a very large reward for uncovering a hole in the encryption algorithms of M$ products. Clearly, YMMV. -Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
I don't know about everyone else, but a T-shirt seems a very small reward for uncovering a "hole" in the encryption algorithm of Microsoft products.
I don't know about anyone else, but helping to protect the confidential data of millions of users around the world seems a very large reward for uncovering a hole in the encryption algorithms of M$ products.
My reward would be the satisfaction of showing M$ code to be the substandard, elitist, money grubbing and dictatorial junk it is. The size of their payroll should not be the reason they want to be able to dictate what programs Joe Deskset runs on the internet. I can see the progression where their CC transportation software is coupled with a Registration Wizard to automatically purchase any software on your HD that they have no record of you purchasing... "just in case and as a service on your behalf". Mark The above opinions are rumoured to be my own.
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