[ale] [ISN] AntiTrust... (fwd)

[Jonathan Rickman]

For those of you heading out to see Antitrust...

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Jonathan Rickman
http://www.xcorps.net/jonathan

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Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 03:19:36 -0600
From: William Knowles <wk at C4I.ORG>
To: ale at ale.org
To: ISN at SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [ISN] AntiTrust...

Just a little heads up if you have been thinking about sneaking out of
the server farm for a couple hours to socialize with others
(Outside of idling a screen on IRC) to see "Antitrust", You might end
up feeling better spending your $8.50 watching "Thirteen Days" or
"Traffic"

>From one of Harry Knowles' reviewers with "Ain't It Cool News"...
http://www.aint-it-cool-news.com/display.cgi?id=7851

"Antitrust is the worst kind of thriller. The lame, predictable, PG-13
kind, completely devoid of any suspense or tension. It also has one of
the least frightening villans of recent screen memory.

Ryan Phillipe plays the prettiest computer programmer in the world."

I can completely agree with that last statement, Phillipe looks more
comfortable packing a pump-action 870 and wearing body-armor in "Way
of the Gun" than as a newly minted Stanford grad in search of dotcom
millions.

Knowing all this now, You are probably wondering how and why I came to
view this, If you are on RSA Security's mailing list, You probably got
a notice from them wondering if you wanted to see a private screening
of Antitrust.

RSA had sponsored the movie and had a product placement of their RSA
SecurID cards throughout the movie.

http://www.rsasecurity.com/go/mgm/home.html?

Here's where the fun kicks in, When I checked the mail for my ticket
to attend this screening, Enclosed was a 'Golden Ticket' not too far
from say "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" that could have been
easily forged at Kinkos in under ten minutes.

It seemed just a little odd to me for a company trying to hype their
security product in a movie where the plot deals with security issues,
VPN's and the Internet.

Me personally if I was working the RSA's promotions for this movie
premier, I would have sent everyone a SecureID key fob for better
two-factor authentication than say a gold paper card printed in
black ink. :)

Well too much sake and sushi for me tonight...

Cheers!

William Knowles
wk at c4i.org



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