re once tapped your code is no good any more in article strnlghtc who fk netcom com strnlght netcom com david sternlight writes i wouldn t think so asking people to trust a secret algorithm seems unsound to me maybe so but it s quite common there are millions of macintosh users who have no idea what s in apple s patented roms many have modems connected how do you know all your business secrets aren t being stolen answer because you trust apple because if any such attempt however sophicsticated came out it would destroy apple s credibility forever then there s also because it s not secret if i want to i can go look at apple s copyrighted roms in a mac so they re not keeping any secrets you don t even have to pry the top off the chip and use an electron microscope you just have to read the data in memory and see if you can figure out what it means motorola object code isn t all that obscure yes it s copyrighted so i can t go selling copies or using the copy myself but i can see it and disassemble it they re not asking me to trust their honesty they re asking me to trust the quality of their assembly language programming but i can see for myself what the performance price and crashes day are nsa an organization not known for its honesty or openness is asking me to trust them with my privacy but they won t trust me feh pray for peace bill bill stewart wcs anchor att com at t bell labs m holmdel nj no i m from new jersey i only work in cyberspace white house commect line fax
