Re: Netscape security
From: altitude@cic.net (Alex Tang) It seems that one of the problems with Damien's cracking job was that it was "not sanctioned".
Actually, INRIA's PR people are quite pleased with the publicity. They asked me to prepare an official press release to counteract the Wall Street Journal's "evil hacker" story, which was unfortunately reprinted by some papers. The Herald Tribune is particularly bad in this respect. If some media insist on this "evil hacker" thing, they will look more ridiculous than anything else (I hope). The press release will be out as soon as it gets through the red tape (the official opinion of a French administration is not something to be taken lightly, even though it's mostly facts :-) I'll put it on my web page when it's official (which is likely to be too late). -- Damien
On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Damien Doligez wrote:
From: altitude@cic.net (Alex Tang) It seems that one of the problems with Damien's cracking job was that it was "not sanctioned".
Actually, INRIA's PR people are quite pleased with the publicity. They asked me to prepare an official press release to counteract the Wall Street Journal's "evil hacker" story, which was unfortunately reprinted by some papers. The Herald Tribune is particularly bad in this respect.
Yes, this is all quite silly. For my part, I've implemented SSL on my work machines (in my own time) and released it under my own copyright and my boses don't mind (mind you, I'm not trying to make money from the code). I've participated in trying to break the 40bit key on work machines (using only idle machines) and they don't mind. I've run network raytracing programs (using only idle machines) and they don't mind. Most places of work give employees quite a bit of lattitude as long as they don't do things that reflect badly on the company and if it generates publicity that is positive they don't mind. If Joe Bloggs who works at Widgets Inc get's mentioned in the paper, thats free publicity for Widgets Inc and indicates that Widgets Inc may have some-one with some brain cells working for them (depending if they call Joe Bloggs an 'evil hacker' or not :-). eric -- Eric Young | Signature removed since it was generating AARNet: eay@mincom.oz.au | more followups that the message contents :-)
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