And one more ... a bit of an extortion attempt from A.Todd
this time.
Amused yet? You will be when your CIO comes to you in a
panic wanting to uninstall all you hard-gained Linux
boxes ; ref. to article entitled "Warnings over second
'flaw' in Red Hat Linux" in Tues' Australian)
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Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 12:17:44 +1000 (EST)
From: Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Adam Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Alan Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [LINK] Re: [Oz-ISP] Adam Todd - "Put up or Shutup"
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Adam Todd wrote:
> I haven't seen the Australian article yet. Don't even know what's in it.
> But as I speak to Journalists with some frequency, it's hardly a demand on
> my time.
That's strange. It was published in its entirety on this list
yesterday.
> How about this. After 12 May I'll take up Scotts challenge under the
> following condition:
>
> 1. Scott pay me in cleared funds an amount of $5000.
> 2. If I can't break the box I will make a formal and public appology on list
> and in the media for full circulation.
> 3. If I do break the box, Scott sends me $5000 a month for 12 months based
> and issues a public appology for full circulation on list and media.
>
> Sounds pretty good to me.
Sounds like extortion to me. In effect, you are holding the open
source community to ransom with a "bug/exploit" only you seem to
know about and are now demanding upwards of $60,000 to demonstrate
and reveal (?) said exploit.
I still say: put up or shutup. You are wasting the list's
time and bandwidth and most of all, your reputation
is wasting away by the minute.
My apologies to the list for belabouring this issue, but it is
an issue which has needlessly opened a can of worms on a number of fronts,
and for seemingly selfish and useless reasons.
rgds
Rick W
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