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Re: a hole in PGP
On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
> That's me - a tinker-toy logician. But why do you believe that PGP can be
> trusted? Because someone told you so in email on an Internet forum? I
> would hate to bet billions of dollars a day and the lives of hundreds of
> thousands of people on that judgement.
Oh, yeah, right...
> > You're testing my patience. Feeling flush from my New Orleans road trip, I
> > went out and bought the commercial version of Eudora, filter-feature and
> > all, which means I'm just itching to test it. In other words, it means you
> > are flirting with the kill-file, the bozo-filter, more rudely, a
> > <plonk!ing>.
>
> Ah!!! A threat. You should be aware that threatening homocide is a form
> of assault. I will be certain to tell the FBI your exact words... "the
> kill-file, the bozo-filter, more rudely, a <plonk!ing>." sounds to me
> (and may well sound to them) like a threat to commit murder.
Just goes to show you that you really CAN tell the idiots on the net -
they usually sign some sort of pompous title before their name.
--
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Q. What's the trouble with writing an MS-DOS program to emulate Clinton?
A. Figuring out what to do with the other 639K of memory.