Breakin attempts

Tom Horsley horsley1953 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 23 14:09:01 UTC 2010


On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:35:55 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> More to the point, there would be widespread panic among banks and
> online shopping sites, webmail sites, and anywhere else that relies on a
> public-key based security model, which is essentially all of them.

Nah, those aren't really problems. As we have already seen with all
the recent spate of credit card number pilfering, it is far simpler
to get a crook hired by the company to get inside info than to
waste lots of time with cracking encryption codes :-).


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