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a good example of bad crypto hype

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NODE 5e4a333ba good example of bad crypto hype David Honig <honig@otc.net>Thu, 8 Jan 1998 09:33:41 +0800

at http://www.meganet.com/explain.htm
you can test your critical thinking skills...



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NODE 5c554e34Re: a good example of bad crypto hype Eric Cordian <emc@wire.insync.net>Thu, 8 Jan 1998 10:34:09 +0800

David Honig wrote:

> at http://www.meganet.com/explain.htm
> you can test your critical thinking skills...

Clearly everyone in this company is on crack. :)

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NODE 9a15d934Re: a good example of bad crypto hype Mark Rogaski <wendigo@ne-wendigo.jabberwock.org>Thu, 8 Jan 1998 12:30:41 +0800

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An entity claiming to be David Honig wrote:

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: at http://www.meganet.com/explain.htm
: you can test your critical thinking skills...
: 

- From the first paragraph, which offers this indisputable nugget:

  "At no point in time does the ORIGINAL DATA 
   ever gets encrypted or transferred
   in any form or shape."

I haven't laughed so hard in a long time.  And the grammar adds an even
better tinge to the spiel.

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NODE f47aaae1Re: a good example of bad crypto hype Alan Olsen <alan@clueserver.org>Thu, 8 Jan 1998 14:44:01 +0800

At 08:30 PM 1/7/98 -0600, Eric Cordian wrote:
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>David Honig wrote:
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>> at http://www.meganet.com/explain.htm
>> you can test your critical thinking skills...
>
>Clearly everyone in this company is on crack. :)

And they also seem to be members of the Society for Creative Anacronyms.

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