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 essentially what you are saying is that this was not computer crime. We
do not need a Big Brotherish society to thwart computer crime, especially if
it's not computer crime in the first place.
>When/if we do ever have the common use of digitally-signed PR, documents
>etc, I wonder how much people will be fooled into thinking that the
>contents must be correct, because after all, they're signed?
Well at least in that case, assuming those holding the authentication keys
know what they're doing and guard their bits, the source of the information
is attributable to someone, which enormously facilitates plain old police
work.
Sampo Syreeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, aka decoy, student/math/Helsinki university
