OffShore Issues

Viva Prohias
NETWORK COMPUTING's March 4 cover illustration features a wonderful tribute to Mad magazine pioneer Antonio Prohias. On the curb in the foreground, you can see what can only be Morse code. The code spells out BYPROHIAS.

The Lambiek Comiclopedia (www.lambiek.net) provides the following biographical sketch:

"In the late 1950s, Antonio Prohias was the president of the Association of Cuban Cartoonists. On the first of May 1960, he fled from Cuba to America flat broke. Once in the States, he went directly to work at Mad magazine and became an internationally respected and beloved cartoonist. He started 'Spy vs. Spy' as an anti-Castro cartoon, but it ended up as one of the most popular features in Mad. Prohias drew 'Spy vs. Spy' for Mad until he retired in 1990. Even though Prohias passed away in 1998, 'Spy vs. Spy' can still be enjoyed in every issue of Mad."

Hats off to NWC for honoring Prohias and Mad in this cool way.
JACK MOGREN
Information Security Specialist
Employer's name and e-mail address withheld by request

Speeders Beware
In your Feb. 19 2004 cover story on Icarus, the University of Florida's P2P-blocking software ("The Enforcers,"), Richard Holeton, Stanford University's head of residential computing, compares the tool to "pulling over everybody on the highway who is driving a certain kind of car that could potentially be breaking the law, and giving them a ticket." I disagree: It's like issuing a ticket to every speeder--after two warnings!
JEFF DURFEE
IT Security Manager
University of North Florida
E-mail address withheld by request

Clarification
Liberty Information Management Solutions' LibertyNet 7.5, which we reviewed in "Averting Document Disaster" (March 18, 2004), costs $590 per user for the first year. Thereafter, the price is 18 percent of the original total software cost.

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