[2226] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: meganet... for all your snake oil needs!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Cobb, CISSP)
Mon Mar 2 16:07:28 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 15:52:14 -0500
To: perry@piermont.com
From: "Stephen Cobb, CISSP" <stephen@iu.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199803022035.PAA01440@jekyll.piermont.com>
At 03:35 PM 3/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>In the neverending war to try to sell pseudocryptography to consumers
>at high prices, we have...
>
>http://www.meganet.com/
>
>Anyone notice them before while on snake oil patrol?
Perry,
Over the last six months these folks have put out some truly amazing
press releases, like how 50,000 people tried, but failed, to break
their stuff, implying IBM and others were courting them, all sorts of
things. I think I kept a few they were just so darned in-your-face.
What is worrying about stuff like this is the fact that so many "news"
sites on the net, and even paper publications, now reprint press
releases as though they are articles. Unless the press release itself
uses terms like "claims" or "suggests" then whatever the press release
says comes across as declared fact.
Stephen
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