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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: Prodigy Rip-Off?!?
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Date: 1 May 91 16:17:49 GMT
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Interested readers should follow the discussion in comp.risks.

One theory is that the information enters the Prodigy files purely
by accident when the Prodigy software requests disk buffers from DOS
and doesn't bother to zero them out.  So whatever leftover junk was
in the disk buffer makes its way into your Prodigy file.

`Don't attribute to maliciousness what can easily be explained by stupidity.'