Re: The burn-off of Tom Veil

2003-02-22 Thread James A. Donald
-- On 21 Feb 2003 at 11:13, Tyler Durden wrote: However, one way to see the situation is more of a buy-off. Arguably, the government plunders in order to pay off welfare society, because if they didn't the masses would rise up and kill off the system But among reasonably capitalist

Re: Citibank Tries to Suppress ATM Hacks

2003-02-22 Thread Eric Cordian
Declan McCullagh wrote: This is an interesting case, but it's not as if Citigroup is trying to stifle academic research for the sake of stifling academic research -- the Cambridge folks were retained as (presumably paid) defense experts in the case. This is not to defend the prospect of a gag

Re: Citibank Tries to Suppress ATM Hacks

2003-02-22 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:05:33PM -0800, Eric Cordian wrote: Now this gets even more interesting. There is a lawsuit in the UK over a South African couple who experienced 190 fradulent Diner's Club charges totaling $80k in the UK while they were in South Africa. The bank is trying to make