17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Excerpts from mail: 29-Jan-96 More FUD from the Luddites .. Douglas Barnes@communiti (3569*)
Whether you're a business or an individual, having, say, your hard drive wiped clean by a virus would be several orders of magnitude worse than the relatively minor inconvenience of having to get unauthorized items deleted from your credit card bill.
For the consumer, absolutely. For the bank, having millions of credit cards compromised by a single attacker is a more serious risk. -------- Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@fv.com> Chief Scientist, First Virtual Holdings FAQ & PGP key: nsb+faq@nsb.fv.com