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Re: Netscape "Timebomb"?


From: Erik Fichtner <techs () obfuscation org>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 02:04:47 -0400

On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 04:40:33PM -0400, Usman wrote:
timebomb.relative_timebomb_secret_name = general.bproxy_cert_digest
timebomb.warning_time = -1
timebomb.relative_timebomb_days = -1
timebomb.relative_timebomb_warning_days = -1
timebomb.expiration_time = -1

As a wild-ass guess, I'd suspect that these are leftovers from the days
when Netscape was a pay-ware product (with that annoying time-limited trial
version thing)

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                        Erik Fichtner; Unix Ronin
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.  Therefore, all progress
depends on the unreasonable." -- George Bernard Shaw


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