-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Anonymous wrote:
The "credit card numbers were stolen" point, that I believe Ed Carp was referring to, had to do with the Mitnick affair, and is very old news.
The fact that they had been stolen was mentioned in an edition of 2600 6 months before the Mitnick saga. Netcom had been told about the security breaches many times, but refused to acknowledge that their site was insecure. It was this arrogance that pissed people off more than their insecurity.
As someone who was involved in the recent iKP / SEPP /STT / --> SET event I would like to point out that it was the storage of CC numbers in databases connected to the Internet which was the primary concern of credit card companies. Sending credit card numbers across the internet in the clear was to an extent a side issue. Clearly if the merchant was nopt going to be able to store the number the number would have to not be received in cleartext by the merchant. Phill - --- [This message has been signed by an auto-signing service. A valid signature means only that it has been received at the address corresponding to the signature and forwarded.] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Gratis auto-signing service iQBFAwUBMToR2yoZzwIn1bdtAQEBDAF+Mgb3VluBwhqkjIgPCJ5YurkDWWm9MRwg RJoqXdalTBmM20ldY5qddiuTGoxni4ac =9L/X -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----