On Thu, 21 Sep 1995 anonymous@freezone.remailer.mindport.net wrote:
NY Times, Sept 21, 1995.
Fraud Can Flourish Without the Internet
To the Editor:
Your Sept. 19 front-page article on the discovery by two University of California graduate students of a flaw in Netscape, the software used for purchases over the Internet's World Wide Web, raises a number of obvious questions.
First, who needs high tech to perpetrate fraud? Any unscrupulous commercial employee could use or sell your credit card number without employing technology.
Every time you hand your card to a waiter in a restaurant, it disappears for several minutes. The department store clerks and gas station attendants you deal with also have access to your card number. How secure is that?
[...]
Robert Herrig Peekskill, N.Y., Sept. 19,1995.
The writer is a systems consultant.
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