Re: FYI: Anyone seen this?

[Len Rose <len () netsys com>]

What's even more of a joke is that The Register published it,
when it was evident from the start that it was never true.

Totally sick of the clueless hyping so-called security news when
they don't even know what security is.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 09:58:38AM -0800, Shon Elliott wrote:

> And from what I know of the problem, the Nullsoft guys already fixed
> this bug in Winamp v2.81+.
>
> The part of this thing that's so funny that people are eating up is the
> fact that they were NOT hired by the RIAA to do it. You can see at the
> bottom of the original statement, that they even say they're joking, but
> the exploit is real, and had nothing to do with the RIAA. RIAA even said
> they have nothing to do with it. I wished I had saved the link for the
> news.com story, but it's there if you look for it.

[snippage]