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Re: NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed
At 11:14 PM 12/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
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>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:32:32 -0800
>To: N E W S R E L E A S E <IPS@olympus.net>
>From: "Steve O'Keefe" <IPS@olympus.net>
>Subject: NEWS: Web Security Hole Revealed
>
>BREAKING NEWS
>For Release Thursday, December 12, 1996
>
>MAJOR WEB SECURITY FLAW REVEALED
>
>(New York) -- Edward Felten, head of Princeton University's
>Safe Internet Programming Team (SIP), today revealed a
>major security flaw in the Internet's World Wide Web.
>Called "web spoofing," the breach allows any Internet
>server to place itself between a user and the rest of the
>web. In that middle position, the server may observe, steal
>and alter any information passing between the unfortunate
>browser and the web.
>
This is considered *NEW* information?