Re: Hey old people

[Blue Boar <BlueBoar () thievco com>]

Roland Dobbins wrote:
> Along those lines, wouldn't the Enigma-machine bugs which allowed  
> decryption of German communications during WWII be considered  germmane 
> (pardon the pun)?  There was even a hardware-swapout  involved, of new 
> rotors.

You know, maybe.

-There was subversion of an intended electronic security measure
-There was a software crack (exploit)

It was just done on a machine that had no communications with the 
compromised machine(s).  You'll have to go to the OSVDB guys for a ruling.

                                        BB
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