Re: FW: NIPC Daily Report 24 July 01

From: Crispin Cowan (crispin@private)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 15:21:51 PDT

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    George Heuston wrote:
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: NIPC Watch [mailto:nipc.watch@private]
    > Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:38 AM
    > To: daily
    > Subject: NIPC Daily Report 24 July 01
    >
    > Vnunet is reporting that millions of people accessing the Internet
    > through broadband cable connections risk having their computers taken
    > over by malicious hackers.  Israeli Security Company Checkpoint revealed
    > today that the devastating security vulnerability is caused by the
    > shared architecture of the data channel that carries Internet traffic
    
    So now NIPC is running free advertsing for "Checkpoint"?  This "revelation"
    is nothing more than a gratuitous plug for Checkpoint's products.
    
    What are these NIPC guys smoking?  Can I have some? :-)
    
    Crispin
    
    --
    Crispin Cowan, Ph.D.
    Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com
    Security Hardened Linux Distribution:       http://immunix.org
    Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html
    



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