Netscape's random numbers
sharborth at hai-net.com
sharborth at hai-net.com
Tue Sep 19 14:56:15 PDT 1995
Congrats, nice job!
The Netscape license explicitly prohibits decompiling (except where such
prohibition is illegal). When this hits the media it will be important to
avoid being tarred with the "hacker breaks rules and breaks in" brush.
More subtly, it's probably a bad idea to call into question the overall
business model of client binaries on the net.
So. At least they're honest and let everbody know.
Instead, emphasize importance of open code, public reviews, ability to
link in your own code that meets public specs, etc. All of these things
the Internet was designed to do, and U.S. ITAR regulations are designed to
prohibit (globally, anyway). And also that the bad guys will never play
by the rules. And re-emphasize that solutions are possible, just that the
U.S. government prevents them from being deployed in a global economy.
Here, here!
Perhaps draw parallels to the recent Microsoft Word virus.
/r$
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W.S. "Skip" Harborth
Manager & Senior Engineer
Information Systems Security Engineering
Houston Associates, Incorporated
4601 North Fairfax Dr, Suite 1001
Arlington, Virginia 22203 USA
(703) 284-8732 812-5099 (fax)
sharborth at hai-net.com
The opinions expressed are my own and have no relation to my employer.
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