Re: LYNX-DEV more about wells fargo, schwab

[Brian Tillman]

Henry writes:

>Lynx is a high-risk application in this sense for two reasons: 1) its
>most widely used platform most often has the binary being run remotely,
>with no guarantee that the route from the host to the terminal is secure,
>and 2) anyone can obtain the source code and hack it as they please with
>the end result that there is no guarantee that any particular image is
>truly secure.

Can't tell this with Netscape Navigator, either.  I run Navigator on an
OpenVMS system, displaying to my PC screen.  Many people run it on Unix
systems the same way.  Moreover, Netscape has made Navigator's source
availalble for all (http://www.mozilla.org/).  How, pray tell, does Wells
Fargo have any assurance Navigator is any safer than Lynx?

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