RE: UKNM: This'll do wonders for confidence in ecommerce - not.

[Chris Meachin]

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 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


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