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"Peekabooty vaporware already raises alarums at network providers"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:41:36 -0500
Subject: Re: FC: Peekabooty vaporware already raises alarums at network
providers
To: Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Well, maybe "vaporware" is a touch too strong. But wasn't it supposed to be
>released last summer?
>
>-Declan
Hi Declan,
Well, vapourware is a _bit_ strong in that dev is still happening
at a ferocious rate on the project, its just that its got a number of
non-trivial issues still to over-come. As a brief update: rest assured that
at the moment there is concurrent development happening for both Windows
and Linux.
The "will be released in x months/hours/minutes..." rumour is something
that keeps getting perpetuated despite our best efforts to stymie it
(nothing dies on the internet <sigh/> ;-) At DefCon a prototype was shown
and it was expected that a beta would be released within six months of that
date. Then reality reared its ugly head. At CodeCon another considerably
more advanced demo was shown but Peekabooty is as of yet still not ready
for public consumption.
We're not releasing not because we don't want people using it but because
we believe that to release to the general public Peekabooty in any state
that isn't satisfactorily secure and tested would be irresponsible. We do
not want users picking up on a version that might have security holes or
other flaws in it and using that. In such a situation where using the
software could compromise the user, not using the software at all is the
best scenario.
Cheers,
MrHappy
--
"Anyone who creates his or her own cryptographic primitive is either a
genius or a fool. Given the genius/fool ratio for our species, the odds
aren't very good." - Bruce Schneier
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