Someone claiming to be "Nathanial Borenstein" writes:
As you may already have heard via the popular press, First Virtual Holdings has developed and demonstrated a program which completely undermines the security of every known credit-card encryption mechanism for Internet commerce.
[...] I started reading this thinking it was actually something important. All it describes is a keyboard monitor, which greps for CC#s, and which could be spread by an (unspecified) virus, and sends the output to a crook over the net by some (unspecified) mechanism. So, what else is new? [...]
Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@fv.com> Chief Scientist, First Virtual Holdings FAQ & PGP key: nsb+faq@nsb.fv.com
It's sort of interesting that "Nathaniel Borenstein" has a PGP key, but failed to clearsign this message, which loudly trumpets it's great import. Considering the lack of actual content, I feel compelled to warn readers that this may be a forgery, designed to make him look like he's scaremongering. strictly speaking for myself Peter Trei ptrei@acm.org Peter Trei Senior Software Engineer Purveyor Development Team Process Software Corporation http://www.process.com trei@process.com