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Subject: RE: UKNM: This'll do wonders for confidence in ecommerce - not.
From: Chris Meachin
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 12:25:09 GMT

I agree that consumer confidence will be seriously undermined by high
profile cases of this nature. It may prove to be an ongoing problem until
the way that online payments are made is fundamentally changed.

In my view, events like this emphasise the poor level of security afforded
by credit cards, rather then the Internet itself.

Credit cards were never really designed to accommodate remote transactions
of this kind and are intrinsically unsuitable.

I can only hope that fraud of this nature will serve to bring the need for
an alternative system of digital payment to the fore.
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From: owneratchinwag [dot] com [owneratchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:owneratchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Wallace,
Darren
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Subject: UKNM: This'll do wonders for confidence in ecommerce - not.


>From www.Silicon.com <http://www.Silicon.com>

Hacker publishes credit card numbers on the Web

PUBLISHED: 0:25am on Tuesday 11th January 2000

Online retailers are still reeling this morning after a hacker broke into
music store www.CDuniverse.com and stole

[Sam says:article chopped for brevity.]


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