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I was e-mailed.

And the chair of a CS department, no less.

- ------- start of forwarded message (RFC 934 encapsulation) ------- Subject: Secure No-overhead Online Order System for Publishers Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 12:24:03 -0800 (PST)

A secure no-overhead online title-ordering system is now available. It may be viewed in operation at the home page for Blue Water Publishing, a publisher, software developer and distribution company, at http://www.bluewaterp.com/~bcrissey/ or from the online bookstore area of ISCNI, the Institute for the Study of Contact with Non-Human Intelligence at http://www.iscni.com

Blue Water's innovative online ordering system is called SimplySafe. It is a needle-in-the-haystack approach to online security. It requires no encryption or secure servers, yet the probability that a dedicated hacker scanning 100 internet messages a second will intercept a usable credit card number sent via SimplySafe is less than the probability of picking our Sun out of the Milky Way. That is less than 1 in 200 billion. Safe enough for most folks. There are easier ways for a hacker to pick up credit card numbers than to waste time with SimplySafe transactions. Try it out!

SimplySafe currently supports secure online orders from Blue Water Publishing, Wild Flower Press, Swan-Raven & Co., and ISCNI. Direct inquiries to SimpleSafe@aol.com

***Dr. Brian L. Crissey, Chair CS Dpt, Linfield Col., McMinnville, OR 97128 (503)-434-2426 brianc@linfield.edu Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark...

The scheme is to send 4 digits of the credit card at a time. The "explanation" follows.

In order to proceed with your SimplySafe® encryption of your credit card number, please enter the SECOND set of (4) digits of your credit card number:

In the 41 seconds since you sent your first packet of four digits, approximately 2869959 packets of information have passed across the internet. Assuming that a hacker can scan 100 packets of information per second for credit card information, there is 1 chance in 699 that he has scanned your first packet of digits. He is unlikely to have found anything useful.

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