1.   Anderson is a well-known computer security researcher whose work in both computer security and cryptography is widely recognized.

2.   But David Wagner, a computer security researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, insisted the discovery was significant.

3.   Computer security researchers have several suggestions for minimizing hacker and virus attacks.

4.   Computer security researchers continually try to break codes because the measure of an encryption scheme is how much time and computing power are needed to crack it.

5.   It was discovered by Jouko Pynnonen, a security researcher with Oy Online Solutions in Finland and was reported by the online news service Newsbytes.

6.   Security researchers have tended to focus on the hard issues of cryptography and system design.

7.   The researchers said the flaw exposed a basic vulnerability that had been frequently ignored by advanced computer security researchers.

8.   This alarmed Mark Inman, a security researcher at Thatcham.

9.   To date, there have been no reports of attacks using the method, which was discovered last month by security researchers in Finland.

10.   What distressed security researchers is how far these crackers got, considering that they almost certainly labored under the handicap of having no idea of what they were doing.