Re: Intel blows it again

• Subject: Re: Intel blows it again
• From: _ (mike)
• Date: 31 Jul 1995 17:37:28 GMT
• Newsgroups: comp.sys.intel
• Organization: _
• References: <3viu1n$1m9@nova.umuc.edu>

>--------------- collins@nova.umuc.edu (JimC)
 >
 > Intel, in a remakably stupid case of "biting the hand that feeds 
 > them", sucessfully prosecuted Perl expert and author of two perl 
 > books (Programming Perl and Learning Perl) for "computer hacking" 
 > while he was working as a consultant for them. His crime? Remotely 
 > accessing their systems from his home and running a crak program on 
 > some password files to uncover security flaws. I hope the $60,000 
 > theyre asking covers the loss of goodwill this has caused in the 
 > programming community. Now where did I put the number for AMD?
 > jimc

Suuurrrre, just checking for security flaws. Was this just some freebie
he was throwing in to save Intel the cost of hiring security experts.
Since they caught him it appears their security is fine. What is perl
anyway? ;->

mike

• Intel blows it again
• From: collins@nova.umuc.edu (JimC)

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