[2232] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: meganet... for all your snake oil needs!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Cobb, CISSP)
Mon Mar 2 17:47:29 1998
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 16:52:36 -0500
To: jim@mentat.com (Jim Gillogly)
From: "Stephen Cobb, CISSP" <stephen@iu.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <9803022117.AA12916@mentat.com>
Jim
Well done! I must admit that I thought about contacting some of the
people with whom Meganet claimed to be working, but never got that
far. Hopefully, someome in legal at one of these companies got round
to sending Meganet a letter.
Come to think of it, who regulates truth in advertising on the net?
Stephen
At 01:17 PM 3/2/98 PST, you wrote:
>Perry Metzger:
>> >http://www.meganet.com/
>> >
>> >Anyone notice them before while on snake oil patrol?
>
>Stephen Cobb:
>> 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.
>
>I saw the one some months ago that said IBM was so impressed with VME
>that they were recommending to NIST that it become the next AES. I was
>taken aback by this effrontery, and sent the pointer on to IBM's public
>relations office, with a rather disingenous question about whether the
>report was correct and what led them to believe this Meganet/VME stuff
>was worthwhile. They wrote back that they had not looked at it, and
>didn't have anything more to say about it.
>
> Jim Gillogly
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