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Re: Netscape rewards are an insult





Aleph One / [email protected]
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On Thu, 19 Oct 1995 [email protected] wrote:

> >   NETSCAPE CLIENT APIS (NCAPIS) 2.0

> Generally, we don't routinely trust every other computer, foreign or 
> domestic on the Internet to manipulate us by remote control.  This is
> as basic as the idea that we don't give out our PIN numbers with our 
> banking cards to anyone who asks us.  

Have you actually read the stuff? The NCAPIS is not on by default.
You *must* enable it by tellling it to which port to listen on.
Further more Mosaic had a remote control API before Netscape did.