- From: Sarr Blumson <sarr@umich.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 15:08:08 -0400
- To: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- cc: www-talk@w3.org, sarr@umich.edu
In message <19970512.7586568.AC25@contessa.phone.net>, Mike Meyer writes: > >I think she's still right - the technology required to snoop credit card >numbers off a web server is noticably newer (and hence less obtainable) than >the technology required to snoop credit card numbers off a hotels phone >lines. The issue isn't at the server, which is either run by competent, trustworthy people or there's no hope at all anyway. At the _user_ end, though, you're trusting everybody who shares the same piece of ethernet. In our public comuting sites that is a very scary thought. -------- Sarr Blumson sarr@umich.edu voice: +1 313 764 0253 FAX: +1 313 763 8937 ITD, University of Michigan http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sarr/ 535 W William, Ann Arbor, MI 48103-4943
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