Re: Critique of CyberInsecurity report

2003-09-27 Thread Sunder
Yup, and also don't forget all the security holes in IE that would allow even more enjoyable fun stuff... things that are(were?) exploited by scumware sites such as Xupiter that installed themselves into IE and allowed pop-up ads from hell. [Sorry about the previous message, had lots of typos in

Re: Critique of CyberInsecurity report

2003-09-27 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 26 Sep 2003 at 17:30, Sunder wrote: Ever seen WebX? - it's like PCAnywhere, or VNC or TimbukTu, only it works over the web. A user just goes to a web page, and a user at the other end can take over their machine because IE allows such software to run! Ok, at least WebX is a

Re: DC Security Geeks Talk: Analysis of an Electronic Voting System

2003-09-27 Thread Ed Reed
Grisham might be better - it's the legal wrangling that would tie up people's imagination, more than the technical. Major Variola (ret) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9/25/2003 12:46:13 PM At 02:48 PM 9/24/03 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: http://www.cryptonomicon.net/modules.php?name=Newsfile=printsid=463