Edupage, 12 October 1995 (fwd)

>From the 'For What It's Worth Department' -

> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 23:22:54 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Educom <educom_at_elanor.oit.unc.edu>
> Subject: Edupage, 12 October 1995

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> NETWORK SECURITY
> The Internet has a well-known inherent security weakness due to its use of
> the NFS (Network File System) protocol, which does not have any way of
> determining whether a file or message has been altered during transmission.
> But executives at Netscape Communications say they will make changes in the
> Netscape browser software to allow a recipient of a downloaded program to
> check to see if it's been tampered with. (New York Times 11 Oct 95 C3) The
> company has also announced a "Bugs Bounty" program offering $1,000 to the
> first person who can identify a major security bug in the new beta version
> of its Netscape browser software. (Wall Street Journal 11 Oct 95 B6)
>

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Paul Ferguson                                           ||        ||
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