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Re: meganet... for all your snake oil needs!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Kellar)
Mon Mar 2 16:17:37 1998
From: tkellar@fsp.fsp.com (Thomas Kellar)
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:11:10 -0500 (EST)
Thanks for the laugh. I especially liked the
"Bit Level Encryption". I will one up them with
HBLE: Half Bit Level Eencryption. If 1 bit
is meaningless, then surely encrypting 1/2 a
bit is even better.
> 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?
> Here is an explanation of their latest "breakthrough" taken from their
> web site. I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
> >From the Meganet Web Site:
[..deleted..]
> > "VME IS THE ONLY UNBREAKABLE ENCRYPTION" . . .
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How can I wear the harness of toil, and sweat at the daily round,
While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound? - REHoward
