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To: brad greene who wrote (16762)	2/9/2000 3:04:00 PM
From: Mike Sawyer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26039

I agree...this will get the media looking for a good story on how to combat this. IDX will be discovered in the process.

To: brad greene who wrote (16762)	2/9/2000 3:07:00 PM
From: David	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26039

Brad, IDX can do very well in protecting against inside the enterprise attacks, as well as some run of the mill hacker password attacks. I'm not so sure that the type of problems we've been seeing in the past couple of days will be totally solved by an IDX solution. Whoever is doing this is a very high level hacker who has hijacked big computers by posing as their administrator. The first biometric line of defense is to put administrator passwords inside a biometric. However, I think we can still see high level attacks that attempt to use side doors or back doors. There always has to be a back door in case the access system crashes. The point becomes, you need a strict protocol to guard the back door to the secure system. I'm sure Verisign is handling this same issue, but Verisign is the service provider and IDX won't be. The IDX back doors will be in the control of the buyers. Hmmm . . .