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Re: FV Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Software Encryption of Credit
I know people are tired of hearing from me, but I can't let *this* go
unchallenged:
Excerpts from mail.cypherpunks: 30-Jan-96 Re: FV Demonstrates Fatal F..
"Paul M. Cardon"@fnbc.co (580*)
> Interesting address that was used to reach me.
> To: [email protected]
> To: pmarc
> Somehow, both reached me from within their system, but if they
> can't configure their e-mail to show the proper address than I don't
> have to much faith in their other abilities. I don't imagine that
> anybody else would have much luck replying to either of those or CAN
> I now receive mail at nsb.fv.com? Is this a new free service
> provided by FV?
Bogus mail addresses of that kind are typically added by all sorts of
mail relays. In other words, although I can't tell you 100% for certain
without seeing the mail headers, the scenario underlying this was
probably something involving a bogus mail relay. Alternately, there are
some systems where this could have all happened entirely on your end, in
your delivery software. There are a zillion ways this can happen,
actually. I've checked my archive, and that address definitely was not
in the mail when it left my system.
I can guarantee you that it wasn't our system that did this. If there's
one things we know cold, it's email. -- Nathaniel
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Nathaniel Borenstein <[email protected]>
Chief Scientist, First Virtual Holdings
FAQ & PGP key: [email protected]