Netscape Security Flaw is a Feature

Bill Stewart stewarts at ix.netcom.com
Fri Jun 13 08:37:02 PDT 1997



At 09:33 PM 6/12/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>But how could such a massive, massive flaw have gone undiscovered for so
long?
 
"Our chief weapon is surprise."

>Meanwhile, Microsoft has acknowledge that all lines to its Redmond site are
>clogged by people dumping Navigator and trying to download Explorer.

Actually, it's all a Scandinavian Plot - the Danish hackers are
doing it on behalf of the Opera Browser folks from Norway,
whose graphical browser has the advantage of being only 1/10 as big as
Netscape or Internet Exploder.  Their primary objective is to
draw people away from Lynx...


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