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Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: Memory extraction

2004-09-08 by Dave VanHorn

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>No. If he was, he would probably have spelled it correctly with the 
>hyphen and upper-case K. I also got his message directly. His e-mail 
>address appeared as ltu_electronic at yahoo dot com.

It was a semi-rhetorical question.. :)

>He's obviously up to no good, but posing as someone else in e-mail 
>isn't limited to the bad guys these days. I got an enquiry on my Web 
>site asking for the source of my Dhrystone benchmark for MCUs. It is 
>posted and freely available, but the enquirer didn't know that. He 
>gave his real name but entered his personal e-mail address and a 
>phony company name. When Google didn't turn up any references to the 
>company, I peeked at the e-mail address from which he filled out the 
>Web e-mail form. It was his name at ZiLOG dot com. So, ZiLOG staff 
>are not above using false identities on the Internet. I gave him the 
>link to the benchmark, told him I knew his real identity and we've 
>had a few productive conversations about ZiLOG's many failings.

I'm surprised that you're done so quickly!

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