Amiga.org recently published a report reading:
`Holger Kruse has been successfully sued for including backdoors
in his public products by a disgruntled user. This lawsuit now
confirms what many have suspected for a while now, that Nordicglobal
products contain procedures to ILLEGALLY illicit user informations
from unaware users. Amiga.org advises users to deinstall any
products from Mr. Kruse. More details soon...'


From Amiga.org:
'I awoke this morning to find about 25 e-mails and a number of
stories posted in our own news database which were not only incorrect
but highly offensive. Rest assured, the crew at Amiga.org did NOT
make those posts and we most certainly would never thrash such
a wonderful Amiga product as Miami. Our sincere apologies go out to
our readers, and most of all to Holger Kruse of Nordic Global. For
the record, There are NO back doors in Nordic Global products,
and we officially and highly endorse the use of Miami...'
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Nordic Global's reponse

The amiga.org website recently published a report alleging that
Nordic Global Inc. was successfully sued because of "backdoors"
in our products.

That report is false. We assume that the amiga.org web site was
"hacked" by Amiga cracker groups, and that these groups are now
trying to, once again, tarnish our good reputation, in order to
retaliate against our active anti-piracy measures. However so far
we have no confirmation yet why and how that bogus report got
published on the amiga.org web site.


In detail:

Our software does not have any backdoors, it never has and never
will. Alleged "backdoors" in Miami actually turned out to be
backdoors in a fake version of "datatypes.library", released by
the members of the Amiga cracker group Digital Corruption. That
group made false claims about alleged "backdoors" in Miami in
order to cover their own tracks.

For more information on that incident please look at the
November '98 news archives of the Amiga Web Directory or any
other reputable Amiga news source. Nordic Global Inc. was
instrumental in uncovering the plot by Digital Corruption and
warning users about the threat. The incident is now well-documented
with sufficient proof against the fake version of datatypes.library.

Nordic Global Inc. does not attempt to obtain private information
from customers in any way, except in ways obvious to users, i.e.
during registration (MiamiRegister), when users are required to
fill out a form with their name and address, and during credit
card ordering, for the purpose of AVS address verification, to
prevent credit card fraud, as recommended by international
credit card regulations.

Nordic Global Inc. values the privacy of users very highly, which
is why our software contains more features to prevent and detect
attacks from the Internet than the software of any of our
competitors, e.g. powerful firewall features in Miami Deluxe.

Except for the usually anonymous rambling of some disgruntled Amiga
crackers, who see their existance threatened by pending lawsuits
against them, we are not aware that any users in any way disapprove
of our policy regarding user privacy.

No lawsuits have been filed against Nordic Global Inc., neither
regarding privacy matters nor regarding any other matter.

All of our software, including Miami and Miami Deluxe, is safe
to use, and "recommendations" to the contrary are libelous and
without factual basis. None of our software contains any mechanisms
to transfer user information to anyone without the knowledge of the
user. This is true both for users of the demo version and
registered users.

We would like to stress, once again, that the ONLY software that
has ever been demonstrated to "steal" private information from
users was a fake "datatypes.library" distributed by Amiga cracker
groups. This shows clearly that the best way to protect your
privacy is for you to NOT use any pirated software, or software
released by cracker organizations.


Nordic Global Inc. assumes that the false "report" on amiga.org
was the result of the "amiga.org" web site being hacked. In that
case expect an official statement and apology from amiga.org
soon.


Holger Kruse
Nordic Global Inc.
05/18/99