UKNM: Re:Secure servers

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>Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:40:43 +0100

>

From: "Charles Linn" <charleslfoe [dot] co [dot] uk>

>Subject: UKNM: Credit card fraud

>

>Has anyone come across cases of credit card fraud in this country or abroad,

>involving intercepted secure transactions where the encryption has been

>subsequently cracked?  We would like to put a statement to the effect that  this

>is either very rare or non-existent, on our web site to allay people's  fears as

>we percieve a lingering and unreasonable distrust of e-commerce out there. 


>Our IT manager sensibly advised that if people were interested in credit card

>fraud, they would find it a damn site easier to get a job as a waiter, but I'm

>not sure that our audience would find this altogether comforting.

>- -- 

>Charles Linn

>Web Producer

>Friends of the Earth

>

>http://www.foe.co.uk


Okay .... go to a petrol garage or supermarket. Buy some goods and pay by  CC.


Where does all your card details end up ? In someone else's hands. Dead 

easy to rip you off.


Now compare that to setting up a machine to intercept details being sent 

to a secure server.


Get my drift.



     Lee





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