Reply #36: A kick for Hopkins' (and Rice's) Heroes

[althecat]

I just sent this email off to Hopkins' Heroes

SUBJECT: Hopkins' (and Rice's) Heroes
TO: Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin, Dan S. Wallach

Dear

Well you guys really took the bit between your teeth.

I cannot possibly express how delighted I was by your wonderful work on the Diebold DRE software. You have made my year, and possibly my decade. This was a big tough job and there was no other way to do it but fast and that is what you did.

And not only have you clearly been working your collectives off on this, but you wrote such a readable report! It is not everyday that someone succeeds in making the intricacies of computer security into a great read – understandable even by a pleb like me.

Anyways. As we say down here in NZ

Kia Kaha
(NZ Maori for stand tall…)

Alastair Thompson
Scoop Media
New Zealand

PS you will find a huge tribute to you all from Bev Harris here…

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=82455&mesg_id=82455&page=2

PPS I do hope you do not mind my stashing an HTML version of your piece online here.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00196.htm

When I saw your piece appear I thought it would be good to have a NZ based mirror of it ASAP. (It’s a bit of a hash to be honest… with the table seriously fuxored. I would be delighted to insert a new copy into the text if you can provide one in html.