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Re: Q: "gisha yashira" for Bank Leumi



"Peter L. Peres" <plp@actcom.co.il> writes:

> On 12 Oct 1998, Alexander L. Belikoff wrote:
> 
> > Yet I'd rather find somebody friendly enough in te Bank to figure out
> > that my proposal to disclose the protocol doesn't bear a security
> > threat. After all, if somebody wanted to break in, they'd use the
> > Bank's native program.
> 
> I don't care what the protocol is, who wrote it etc, and I care even less
> how it works. What I want is a Linux BINARY that makes middleware using it
> possible. I don't even mind if it runs on SCO and can be Linuxed via iBCS.
> Let it be a simple Unix pipe that encrypts and decrypts.  I'd even be
> *glad* if they'd slow it down ON PURPOSE to prevent it from being used in
> brute force attacks offline. Just stop these guys from being so
> constipated about Linux-related stuff. M$ OSes are just NO-NO for anyone
> trying to make a living off computers (vendors are excluded - just barely
> - for now).

Good - we are getting somewhere, finally... :-) That's what I started
with - to find somebody in BL and to convince them to either develop a
UNIX solution or to disclose the protocol. Since the former requires
much more effort, the latter may be more possible. So, anybody has a
friend/relative working at BL? ;-)

Finally, speaking of vendors. The one of ours seems to be an MS
dealer. Recently, I talked to another salesman and that guy told me
that "it is illegal to sell computers without Windows 95". And after
I'd recovered from a long gasp and had asked him where I could find a
reference to that wonderful law, he suggested my talking to Microsoft
people. Isn't it lovely?! And by the way, is it legal to force people
buy software they don't want to, even for dealers?..

-- 
Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg L.P. / BFM Financial Research Ltd.
abel@bfr.co.il