Tim May wrote:
At 11:44 AM -0700 9/6/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
How often do people check signatures?
If they check them, and they pass, how often do they check keys?
doesn't matter. it's POSSIBLE, that's what is important. the first time
you lose a million bucks at the exchange because you
At 1:12 PM -0700 8/31/00, Eric Murray wrote:
A small note: IW digitally-signing the releases would not
have made a difference in this case-- the guy used his knowledge
of IW's procedures to social-engineer IW into accepting the
fake release without doing their usual checking procedures.
At
At 11:44 AM -0700 9/6/00, Bill Stewart wrote:
At 1:12 PM -0700 8/31/00, Eric Murray wrote:
A small note: IW digitally-signing the releases would not
have made a difference in this case-- the guy used his knowledge
of IW's procedures to social-engineer IW into accepting the
fake release without
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Eric Murray wrote:
A small note: IW digitally-signing the releases would not
have made a difference in this case-- the guy used his knowledge
of IW's procedures to social-engineer IW into accepting the
fake release without doing their usual checking procedures.
So
Mr. May said:
(News services still have some role, of course.)
Of course, one of there roles could be "verification" of the
press release, i.e. Emulex signs it, and rather than having to have
985,234,003 keys on my key ring to verify every press release I read,
the News Service can
I just watched the live press conference by the FBI, District
Attorney's Office, and SEC folks. The full story should be on Yahoo
and other news sites. The gist is that an arrest was made this
morning.
A former Internet Wire employee, who left in early August, was the
arrestee. Internet
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 12:50:58PM -0700, Tim May wrote:
I just watched the live press conference by the FBI, District
Attorney's Office, and SEC folks. The full story should be on Yahoo
and other news sites. The gist is that an arrest was made this
morning.
A former Internet Wire
