17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Joe Buck writes:
However, I disagree with your conclusion:
Don't trust your credit card number to this protocol.
Your credit card number, expiration date, etc, are continually being revealed to minimum-wage clerks all the time, unless you never use the card.
On the other hand, those clerks can be traced down in most cases and have fairly limited numbers of cards they get. It might be very profitable to run a vacuum cleaner operation on the net slurping down credit card number or other confidential information and then selling it in bulk to people who could exploit it. .pm