But I'm not saying that all controls should be lifted. Overheard in the Halls. I'm so glad to be away from crypto,' he told me. By now you've probably heard the one about the Danish bounty hunter and the Netscape bug. He discovered a way for a Web-site administrator to copy files from the disk of any user of any version of Netscape Navigator or Netscape Communicator, on any platform.
Firewalls offer no protection.
Netscape refused to pay up, and later compared Orellana's demands to those of a terrorist. Orellana contacted the press, CNNfn and PC Magazine, and proved to their satisfaction that the bug exists as claimed. The company will deliver fixes first for Communicator, then for Navigator, beginning this week. The Federal Trade Commission held hearings last week on consumer privacy. Lynch concludes that the FTC is in no mood to regulate spam at this time.